Peter Quinn , Raili Haimila, Antony West, Christian Sturgis, Gillian Quinn, and Sam Belgan Hopkins ( former members include: Scott Braid and Jeff McGrath) — Drop-Out Soul from Baltimore USA. Sometimes described as descendants of Can, John Cale, Mission of Burma, the Fall, Pere Ubu, Rain Coats because of their stripped-down agit-prop pop sensibility. Where Gospel Store Front is a poetic manifesto of love songs and defiant resistance, Replica Watches is a journey into more melodic and existential depths.
WFMU Lo ModA's minimal art school dropout sound is a confident and laudably new idea derived from a myriad of 90s era Baltimore Dischord-ish projects, including Candy Machine and Fascist Fascist . Cool bands, both, but with Lo ModA's (sic, sorta) debut album, Gospel Store Front, we meet a band that's grown away from any very easily identified genre roots and created a very natural sound that they own outright. It's a slinky, mean, great album. Of course with a name that translates to "The Fashion," it's har
It's been receiving a fair amount of airplay here at WFMU recently. They've agreed to let us share a few tracks from Gospel Store Front and they send word that they're putting out a new album soon.