Interview: Menomena
From the Metro Santa Cruz
Rock music is obsessed with picking over its own bones, constantly recapitulating what has come before in increasingly derivative permutations. It’s rare to come across a band with a sound that’s undeniably new, but Portland’s Menomena is just such a band, skillfully merging meat-and-potatoes indie rock with digital loops, a dub-inspired low-end rumble and a contemporary cut ‘n’ paste approach to composition. If there’s another band Menomena most resembles–philosophically if not sonically–it’s Radiohead, in their recontextualization of what a rock band can be in a digital age. Click here to read more »
