Meho Plaza
Sun 18 May 2008
Meho Plaza: Your Future Looks Bright
In a city overrun by bands of all natures, Meho Plaza are a breath of fresh air. An indefinable blur of genres and styles, they seem to run against the tide of trends that flood the area of LA from which they’re from. I first heard the band a couple of years ago, and I’ve been an avid and advocating fan ever since. Looking forward to an opportunity to write about them, they have since sent me samplers and now their self-titled, debut full length album, and I can say with much conviction that it is choice.
Their punchy drums, squalling, psychedelic guitars and layered, hazy and fuzzy vocals could be likened somewhat to the Hives (for the drums) and Blonde Redhead (for the vocals) respectively, but in all fairness I have not heard anything like them. Fucking up drums with gay abandon on Lacrosse, I haven’t heard such experimental midi since Lightning Bolt or Megaheroes. They literally don’t have a bad song.
With so much energy for such a surprisingly small unit, they’re incredibly tight, with speed and precision, they operate like surgeons: dissecting the average pop song and creating something creepy and eerie and beautiful and utterly compelling with it. I don’t know how they do it, but it’s magic in every song. Finally bringing to a larger audience their magnificent and refined sound, it’s really great to see how they’ve grown from their early demos to samplers to a genre-creating, ground-breaking album of songs that each stand apart on their own as representations of the band and concept-defying artworks. Meho Plaza bring to the minds of the masses freaky images of dissecting insects, alchemy and the dirge of modern life.
Meho Plaza– I Sold My Organs: MP3
Meho Plaza– Your Future Looks Bright: MP3
Meho Plaza– A Running Man: MP3
Posted by Sarah Gooding under Los Angeles
