Artist description Do you like robots? Do you like dragons? Monsters? Old Men trapped in boxes? Pirates? Ghosts? Classical musicians? Zombies? Indian Gurus? Cheese? Crap? Snails?... Then you may like this music.

Music Style Atmospheric, Experimental, Heavy Bedroom Pop, with elements of Blues, Indie Rock, Hardcore and Waltz.

Musical Influences Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Saetia, Portrait, Tom Waits, Beck, Radiohead, Frank Zappa, The Cure, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Portishead, Bjork, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel, Low, Slint, Can, Television, Fugazi, Cursive, John Cage, Matmos, Jeff Buckley, Ren and Stimpy, The Pixies, Jimi Hendrix, At the Drive-In, Godspeedyoublackemperor!, Her Space Holiday, the Zombies, Joy Division, the Smiths, Pink Floyd, Boredoms, Harcore Citrus Refeshment.

Similar Artists My Youth in Arcadia, Sun-Bleached, The Sasquatch, Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Beck, Her Space Holiday, Cursive, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sigur Ros, the Cure, Can, Bjork, Beulah.

Artist History From the ashes of a thousand volcanoes and the bitter winds of the arctic came a small child that played the hurdy gurdy. Her name was Molly, and she liked baseball, and pie. when the time is right, her wings will spread and she will return to the Great Yellow Nothingness from whence she was birthed.

Group Members Dean Tisthammer (writes, produces, engineers, and plays lots of instruments badly) + these wonderful human beings that help out: adam erwin, richard laws, vanessa walsh, matt harra, brad richter, barry sanchez, matt dippe, matt power, and thomas hardy.

Instruments bass, drums, guitars, sitar, voices, violin, kalimba, keyboards, autoharp, robot, balalaika, gong, saron, kempul, remote controls, trumpet, vocalizer, ghosts, ocarina, traffic noises, glockenspiel.

Albums Maintained at a Somewhat Frantic Pitch (Aug 02), This Is What Happens When You go to the Place Where the Ocean Meets the Earth (Sep 02), This is a Letter I Wish I Had Signed in Blood (Nov 02), The Adventures of Ice Cream Boy and Complicated Man (split album with Sunbleached, April 03), Making Introductions EP (May 03), Enclosed Spaces (August 03).

Press Reviews "this sounds like evil circus music" - vanessa ::: "dude, it sounded like dragons fighting in you room. it gave me the chills." - my brother ::: "that is the most annoying sound ever" Jeff Carusa (commenting on balalaika played with an e-bow and slide).

Additional Info (blowfish maintenance not available at all times)..e-mail me if you want music!

Location Forestville, California - USA

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