A Faulty Chromosome
Mon 19 Oct 2009
Down and Out in Austin, Texas
Eric Dalke from A Faulty Chromosome sent us a wonderful email last week, complete with a link to download his band’s new album and information about a pledge drive they’re doing to raise money to pay for making it. It’s great then that A Faulty Chromosome’s music is extremely good, spinning a cutesy pop buzz in line with The Unicorns, The Zookeepers and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
The four piece band from Austin, Texas make a kind of children’s music for restless adults, mixing casiotone keyboard bleeps, drum machine beats, fuzzy guitar drones and playful lyrics, complete with the excitement young boys get from rolling around in a muddy field and girls get from playing in the school sandpit. It’s smooth and ambient and for the most part moves at a gentle pace, being only occasionally interrupted by dialogue from an old black and white film and the odd collision of instruments.
Their new album (Craving To Be Coddled So We Feel Fake-Safe) has more of a playful vibe than their last (As An Ex-Anorexic’s Six Sicks Exit), which was heavy on drone and had less precarious keyboard parts. And it’s packed with pretty imagery and a sense of dreaminess, achieved by balancing the melodies and noise on par with each other. A Faulty Chromosome like to sound fuzzy and mysterious; it’s part of their charm, and it sets them apart from many other bands who achieve the sound by recording on lo-fi equipment.
Like a lot of musicians, making music full-time has made Eric and his band mates rather poor. Eric says he has been living off credit cards for the past year. So to try and raise the money to pay back all the people that have helped A Faulty Chromosome throughout the past year and to help promote their new album, the band is running a pledge drive over at the kickstarter website (a business set-up to help fund creative ventures). You can visit the site and pledge some money and in return you will be duly compensated. For example, if you pledge $10 you will receive an actual hard copy (CD) of the band’s new album, a limited edition badge/button and a hand-made thank you card; the more you pledge the more you get in return. Go take a look at the band’s pledge page and see for yourself. The only catch is that the band need to raise $5, 678 by November 11. Please help!
A Faulty Chromosome- Incubate’r: MP3
A Faulty Chromosome- Little Miracles: MP3
Posted by Nick Fulton under Texas, U.S.A
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