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Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia Portland featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this summer, and they’re going to be tearing it up at SXSW (so there’s another band to add to your list). Willamette Week says they conjure a “ghostly drone funk that seemed to come from far away, a subterranean punk struggle with a slow dance,” and that’s as apt a description as you’re likely to find. I’m loving “Eyes, Hands, Mouth,” and “Sharpen The Knife” is pretty good too…
::: Explode Into Colors – “Sharpen The Knife” :::
…plus there a bunch more good ones streaming at their Myspace. I’m anxious to get my hands on a full-length from them, let’s hope they keep at it.
(But they’re not going to get that vaunted approval from the hipper-than-thou “online tastemakers” unless they change their name to “Explode Into Color GIRLS,” and start recording their songs through some broken-ass, staticky microphone into a shitty old boombox.)
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March 11th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
That is the coolest band name I have heard in a while. I dig the tunes, too.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
[...] The Catbirdseat posts some northwestpunkdub goodness from Explode Into Colors… here. Hopefully, they will come to NY when they drop their new 7″ on Kill Rock [...]
March 12th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Explode Into Colors are indeed rad! And we in Portland – not Olympia – are thus proud to call them our own.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Though I do dig this, it sounds like boombox recording to me.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:11 am
[...] piled on the praise for Explode Into Colors back in March (and, awesomely, have seen many others follow suit (particularly following their SXSW [...]
June 6th, 2009 at 12:03 am
[...] I first mentioned that Kill Rock Stars would be releasing an Explode Into Colors 7″ this summer (and later [...]