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An atmospheric mix of dream pop, electronic, and ambient soundscapes. For fans of Air, Boards Of Canada, M83, The Cure.
The tragedy of Miller and ONeill, if not Aristotle and Aeschylus, consumes and excretes the lives of denizens of Smalltown, Anywhere, USA , most agreeably when they are not even cognizant of it. Evansville is such a place, a nowhere burg dripping off the right-dressed tapered pudendum of the state of Indiana , as anonymously and hopelessly Midwest as any place that could be fancied into fiction. It was here that Tommy Wedge, as well cast a post- Sesame Street Everyman as anyone, grew up, amid a white-bread wannabe-middle-class cookie-cutter subdivision in the shadow of that 20th Century Towne Centre, the mall, a setting designed to make David Lynch salivate.
Not that Tommy thought anything amiss in the only place he had known as a home, his inward-leaning consciousness and artistic temperament finding the typical outlets in the pages of X-Men and grooves of his brothers Slayer records. Only the fulcrum of pubescence, the age of reason, compelled the shy, awkward teen to make eye contact with the world and read in its future for him the bleak vacuum of ambition his surroundings portended. Scared of girls, helpless at class work and quietly tending his myopic social sensibility, Tommy turned to the electric guitar and the brooding escapism of bands such as The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cocteau Twins for solace, that great late-80s suburban rite of passage. These sounds informed the songs he would write and perform with local groups like The Swing, Kissyface, and The Fontanes, great music few would ever hear, always just this close to breaking through to wider recognition.
1 Systems
2 Jupiter
3 The Architect
4 Elephant
5 The Injured Party (Departure 1)
6 It's All In Your Head
7 Trueblood
8 Don't Tell The World Too Much (Departure 2)
9 The Stars Will Explode In The Sky (Departure 3)