In a year that has already presented some remarkable local singles and 7″s, Followed By Static’s new “Lullaby” 7″ definitely rates near the top. The duo ropes in raw melodic lines coated in a thick layer of blistering distortion and fuzz, sliding effortless through rich Sonic Youth tones, stripped Velvet Underground patience, and a heavy dose of My Bloody Valentine feedback. The blistering punk and noise-based elements of frontman Eric Rothschild’s work in iKiLLCaRS pushes through the sound, but Followed By Static proves more cohesive and in control of their tide of distortion than driven by it. The songs can melt sanguinely or swallow the listener whole, slow climaxes that emerge as simultaneously inviting and threatening. Followed By Static plug into the Hole in the Wall this Thursday, August 6, with locals Hotel Hotel and Louisiana’s Dead Mellotron.
Profile: Followed By Static
Year Formed:
2007
Members/Instruments played:
K Lee – electric guitar, drums
E Static – acoustic guitar, vocals, drum
Rhythm Ace - beats
Former Bands/Side Projects:
K Lee plays with The Koreans
E Static played Johnny Law in iKiLLCaRS. That’s all we can say due to pending litigation
Albums:
AceBeast (Cassette, 2008, Room Clearing Music)
Lullaby 7” (Vinyl, 2009, Rare Dust Records)
Influences:
The Rhythm Ace, Electricity, Hindsight
Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music:
Anything “psyche” seems strange. And there was “mold growing over a beat super-structure”. Strange.
Favorite local bands:
The Strange Attractors, Elvis!, The Golden Boys, PVC Street Gang, Nervous Curtains, Coma In Algiers, The Dead Space, ST 37, Damage Pants
Favorite local venue:
Anywhere that lets the band play at appropriate volumes (which is pretty loud in our case) and has a relatively accessible load-in. A/C is nice too in the summertime
Upcoming shows scheduled:
Waiting on a confirmation for Red 7 in September. Cutting down on shows for a bit to finish recordings, flush out new tunes
Shows over the next month that you’re excited to see:
That’s a lot of planning we don’t have time for. Join our twitter @FinBones101 and maybe we’ll let you know on a day-to-day basis. Ah, we got one, The Strange Attractors and Dungen , Mohawk, 8/21.
Some of your favorite albums from the past year:
Manikin’s new album, Stop the Sirens. Late 70’s live recording of John Cale - Sabotage. Just picked those up at Trailer Space Records.
Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour:
Wayne Payne, Love And Rockets, My Bloody Valentine, Hank Williams, Sr.
Austin Sound questions:
So what exactly precedes the static?
A riotous crowd of Canadians. Pissed that Guns N Roses canceled a show.
Y’all have released a cassette and now a 7″, so we were wondering how those formats fit the band’s aesthetic in y’all’s mind?
Both have more character than CDs. We have a lot of character as well. Put the two together and it could be an overkill of character, but we like to push boundaries that way.
Song Introduction:
Track’s called “Lullaby.” It’s the A-side of our 7” – available at most non-Waterloo records shops in town. The conception of the tune may be our watershed moment as a band. Chemistry and all that. Both instrumentally and lyrically has it all as far as twists, turns, who and what we were or are. Yeah, were.
2nd track “Trash”. just a demo. we’ve got some work to do on it. may be cool to include, compare to the final track, whenever it gets done. appropriate. its about being broke. and ripping shit off. the riff and beat is all our own, but some of the lyrics or at least the idea behind them are from some jam heard at the clubs. some Kid Sister, MIA sounding lady rapper. don’t remember her name, but the song resonated in the head for days. this is how it was purged.
Sound Off:
In 1933, Benito Mussolini claimed that capitalism began with dynamic or heroic capitalism (1830-1870) followed by static capitalism (1870-1914) and then reaching its final form of decadent capitalism, known as supercapitalism, which began in 1914.[2] Mussolini argued that Italian Fascism was in favour of dynamic and heroic capitalism for its contribution to industrialism and technical developments but claimed that it did not favour supercapitalism, which he claimed was incompatible with Italy’s agricultural sector.[3]
Mussolini claimed that dynamic or heroic capitalism and the bourgeoisie could be prevented from degenerating into static capitalism and then supercapitalism if the concepts of economic individualism were abandoned and if state supervision of the economy was introduced.[4] Private enterprise would control production but it would be supervised by the state.[5] Italian Fascism presented the economic system of corporatism as the solution that would preserve private enterprise and property while allowing the state to intervene in the economy when private enterprise failed.[6]
Mp3s:
Lullaby
Trash (Demo)
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