Menomena-Friend and Foe (2007)
Posted in Experimental Rock on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Having spent a fair amount of time huddled under Portland’s late-year cloak in the past few months, I understand how the city—fair of roses and rain—birthed a band like Menomena. It inherits shaggy American Apparel cynics—every coffee house youth hooded and lost to you—out of swashbucklers and Shanghai pasts, much the way Menomena tangles itself in so much yore and yesterday—from the Beach Boys to Joy Division, the Flaming Lips to early-era Radiohead—in order to create something willfully idiosyncratic, and, as of 2003, downright novel against the hovel.
Song: Boyscout’n [5:18]
