Alan MX: Wet Finger In The Ear

Today's offering from A New Band A Day is one Alan MX! Here's what they have to say...

"Now and again, a band or artist pokes a hole through the beige dullness that is the musical space-time continuum. This doesn't necessarily mean that they've done anything particularly inventive - anyone can play a bunch of samples in a semi-random order and cause ears to prick up - but Today's New Band innovates, teasing something new out of the limp heap that is pop music.

This wet finger in the ear of drab musical ordinariness is Alan MX, whose music is skewed, restrained, and new. Warpsicord is one of the most accurately descriptive song titles you'll find - a song that forces mutations from simple musical instrumental sounds. This is where awkwardness and lushness overlap, creating its own musical Venn diagram.

Captain America Video tickles Twee-Pop, Lo-Fi, swooning instrumentation, thumping disco pop and twitchy laptop fiddling, but doesn't linger near any of them for too long. Songs like Flesh Emergency are a delight - airy, shiny and sleazy all at once. His songs never trip over their own strangeness, but create their own space where it all just seems right.

Scuttling to form his own path, Alan MX's music is unusual enough to live and clever enough to thrive. Lovely. Listen here!

Labels: lithe, loopy"