Blog: Three Imaginary Girls

Seattle's Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's songs are as amalgamous as the band itself. With heavy post-punk bass lines, Modest Mouse guitar lines, and Strokes-like drumming, MSHVB transcends all these things in the ways that they put them together. Using heavy drumming, keyboards and distorted guitar, and alternating loud and gentle tracks they skim the surface of nostalgia for a post-industrial era that can never be returned to. All of this is most evident during their live show. They opened for Cursive at Neumos a few weeks ago and blew the audience away. The excessive amount of drums [...]