a faulty chromosome
Breakbeats / No Wave / Powerpop
austin, tx
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About
A faulty chromosome is what I named my music on account of people asking me "what are you, retarded or something?" all the time. I do things quite differently than most, I suppose, but I don't think I'm retarded. I don't think anyone is retarded, it's just that people have been tricked by the media into believing that there actually is such a thing as "normal" to be achieved that -- when something "abnormal" is presented to them -- they don't quite know how to process it, and make fun of it, or give it abstract labels like "weird" or "quirky" without really thinking about what that implies...
The music is a slopbucket of sing-sung-alongable-songs full of fuzz and tremolo, sock-hop hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged photographs of your 8th birthday, mashed casio chords, collapsing guitars, and drum machine'd beats all bundled up in a warmish childhood memory of hiding underneath your grandma's kitchen table in 1989 watching an episode of Mister Rogers with her overweight cocker spaniel (what was his name? keebo? keeno?).
People have called it "loser-pop" or "hip-plop" or "jangle-slop" or "lo-fi-college-rock" or "shoegaze-bop." I think those are all very cute names, but I don't know, I just try to make happy and hopeful songs that sound good to me? I guess the point is that -- because there are so many different influences mooshed together in each song (pavement + xtc + freestyle fellowship + buddy holly + nirvana + new kids on the block + new order + sun ra = one song) -- it doesn't fit very nicely in any genre...
We have snuck our way onto bills with acts like: Dan Deacon, Atlas Sound, The Radio Dept, the Vivian Girls, HEALTH, Rose Melberg, Ariel Pink, Half Japanese, and other such-sounding indie heartthrobs (I'm not trying to impress you or anything, because I'm sure none of those bands even took the time to watch us play, but just so you have some sort of frame of reference).
Stats
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Members
eric + matt + stephanie + paul
a faulty chromosome is currently going door-to-door trying to sell you our girlscout cookies. Buy one @ kickstarter.com/projects/afaultychromosome
updated Sep 25, 2009
