Chromatics
retard their hype continously. The Portland-based band’s first release «Healer» in 2005, the follow up «In The City» two years later, their cover of Kate Bush’s «Running Up The Hill» and their debut album all caused a ruckus throughout the music press, but they didn’t feed the flames. The 80s synth melancholia of Johnny Jewell, Adam Miller and singer Lena Okazaki sounds like a heroin trip down Miami’s Ocean Boulevard.
A: In Elementary school: Def Leppard; in Junior High: Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr.; and in High school: Beat Happening, Unwound, Tiger Trap and The Softies.
L: We were taught the dance in grade school and I remember dancing to the song, outside on the blacktop.
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L: My parents would put the tape on when I was going to sleep. I was very small around five. My siblings and I shared a room, and my dad would tell us to meditate and shut the door. We lived by the beach so it was pitch dark the music would be loud.
A: The Monkees and lots of Sade. My Parents would make us listen to these records on car trips together over and over again.
A: I don’t know. I’ll have to think about that.
L: I want to be made/compressed into a diamond. So maybe Grace Jones would be good. She is a diamond in the smooth like me.
L: Police, Art Garfunkel, Yello E.P. of «I Love You» and «Odyshape» by The Raincoats.
A: Every summer has been great so far. The soundtrack to last summer was Glass Candy’s «Iko» and «I Gotta Stay Fly».
L: That’s a sad song. The dog dies too.
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A: It gets me all riled up and ready to hit the town. I can’t forget Gary Glitter either.
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A: I think I was in third grade.
L: This is my jam.
A: Probably a T. Rex song. I have been obsessed with Marc Bolan from the first moment I heard T. Rex. To me, this is perfect music.
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L: I loved those videos when I was a kid.
A: Any R. Kelly song. Maybe «Happy People» or «Fiesta». Lena says that I want to be R. Kelly. «Slave To Love» also. Or anything by Roxy Music.
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