A faulty chromosome is what I named my music on account of people asking me "what are you, retarded or something?" all the time. I do things quite differently than most, I suppose, but I don't think I'm retarded. I don't think anyone is retarded, it's just that people have been tricked by the media into believing that there actually is such a thing as "normal" to be achieved that -- when something "abnormal" is presented to them -- they don't quite know how to process it, and make fun of it, or give it abstract labels like "weird" or "quirky" without really thinking about what that implies...
The music is a slopbucket of sing-sung-alongable-songs full of fuzz and tremolo, sock-hop hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged photographs of your 8th birthday, mashed casio chords, collapsing guitars, and drum machine'd beats all bundled up in a warmish childhood memory of hiding underneath your grandma's kitchen table in 1989 watching an episode of Mister Rogers with her overweight cocker spaniel (what was his name? keebo? keeno?).
People have called it "loser-pop" or "hip-plop" or "jangle-slop" or "lo-fi-college-rock" or "shoegaze-bop." I think those are all very cute names, but I don't know, I just try to make happy and hopeful songs that sound good to me? I guess the point is that -- because there are so many different influences mooshed together in each song (pavement + xtc + freestyle fellowship + buddy holly + nirvana + new kids on the block + new order + sun ra = one song) -- it doesn't fit very nicely in any genre...
We have snuck our way onto bills with acts like: Dan Deacon, Atlas Sound, The Radio Dept, the Vivian Girls, HEALTH, Rose Melberg, Ariel Pink, Half Japanese, and other such-sounding indie heartthrobs (I'm not trying to impress you or anything, because I'm sure none of those bands even took the time to watch us play, but just so you have some sort of frame of reference).
Last year our first album, "as an ex-anorexic's six sicks exit," came out and I tried very hard to get people to know who we were by paying a promotions company money I didn't have to harass people into listening to it, and we toured a lot, and -- though we met a lot of nice, new friends, and many people told me they liked the songs a lot -- I still ended up losing a lot of money, and we still can't make music a full-time career....
If you'd like, you can hear a lot of the older songs at the links below. I think they're pretty good songs, but I was still really afraid and confused then, so sometimes I mumble and you can't even tell what I'm singing about. I tried to do a better job about that for this new album. I hope you will get to hear them soon and tell me what you think?
