Austin Sound

Essentially a one-man album, Take a Look Out Your Window leaves you feeling giddy, giggly, and silly. The band is Pataphysics but it’s Patrick Healy bathing under the heat lamps, dancing, clutching the microphone to his heart, crowned by a fuzzy wolf hat and sacrificing the profane. “I’m a children’s music performer. [K]ids love making fun of everything that is sacred - no exception.” Assuming most of us have the good sense to still be childlike, the 350 copies of Pataphysics’ album will likely be gobbled up like Oreos spirited from grandma’s cookie jar. So do yourself a favor and look for it.

Lest you think that the band name promises an exercise in “the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments” and feel a bit cowed by Pataphysics, fret not. Choosing the name of the project was merely a convenient and cute pun, not a statement of intent. Not to be restrained, however, Healy wrote me saying, “We’re just an eccentric rock group I guess - we might get weirder and work in theories of ‘Pataphysics’ when we mature musically. Who knows.”