05.13.07

It’s not for the cock, It’s for the Sanity

Posted in Artists, John at 6:15 pm by John

Coursework deadlines dominated my last week, something that I would neglect and forget until till about 19:30 every day when I would sit at the PC, staring at the screen and crying about the lack of care that was going into this extremely important time of my life.
The one thing that kept me sane, that practically forced my crippled fingers to type and my blackened eyes to stay open was the calming, soothing, melodic and brilliant music of Menomena.

Menomena hail from Portland, Oregon, and are quite established, having already released two albums; (”I am the Fun Blame Monster” (2003) and “Friend and Foe” (2007)) and a concept album, “Under an hour”. I love both albums, their songs range between creepy and possible, beautiful(gay?), but remain unthrilled by “Under an Hour”, but this probably boils down to the fact that I feel concept albums are pretentious.

I’m throwing down three tracks, one being a remix by friends of the band; Talkdemonic. This song is how I got into menomena, it’s haunting and amazing, despite only being 1:44; but like most menomena songs the drumming remains paramount and overshadows the melodies;

MENOMENA - TWENTY CENT REVOLT(TALKDEMONIC MIX)

The next song is off their newest album, “Friend and Foe”. This is a song that sticks firmly in the creepy section of their music, the piano creating a floating, ethereal quality that is smashed to pieces with the introduction of the crashing drums, i love this track.

MENOMENA - WET AND RUSTING

Finally, the conclusion to their first album, a monstrously haunting and tuneful song that downplays the drumming and focuses on the band’s attention to vocals and other instruments. Well worth a listen.

MENOMENA= - THE MONKEYS BACK

Check the band out at the two links below, do it.

MYSPACE
OFFICIAL SITE

Next post = It’s for the party.
waheeeeeye x

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