Artist: megabats

Pt. 1 here . Megabats (aka Samuel Melancon & Riley Scott) are Seattle's most oft overlooked purveyors of sun-craved sci-fi utopian 8-bit angst (<-oxymoron!), not completely unlike a cataclysmic cross between USF and White Rainbow . Dan Deacon and Fuck Buttons are also noteworthy peers. They've tagged themselves as "blissbeat chillwave drone experimental free improvisation glo-fi noise". Can ya dig? They've recently released a new album recently, Solaria , vi Melancon's own Debacle Records, and it's a perfect soundtrack to [...]

SO.FUCKING.GOOD. MEGABATS .

Megabats - Amazon Bike Tits Megabats really impressed me with their debut in/out . It was a sweet blend of fuzzy Fuck Buttons beats with spacey Oneohtrix Point Never bloop drone. For some reason I never reviewed it, but they have a new one called Goes To A Lemon released by the same label, Debacle , and I'm not letting them slip by again. The jams they're making [...]

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more bands should be named after animals. swans. cows. electric eels. oxes. part chimp. pelican. silkworm. yellow swans. it's a marker of quality surely? anyway this pair come with connotations of large eyes, the ability to operate in varying light and an exceptional sense of smell. they don't use echolocation to orient themselves. which annoyingly would have been a niceneasy segue into the in/out album. curses! megabats are samuel melancon and riley scott. they make noises, repectively waaaaaaaah and [...]

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