
Alarmingly brilliant. You might not see or expect it in this group of four rather regular-looking guys from the Great Lakes State, but Michigan's Mason Proper , led by the ingenious Jonathan Visger , creates an endless geometric array of patterns and textures that flow with fascinating angularity over a limestone groove riverbed. The band's boggling resourcefulness with the regular suspects (drums, guitar, bass, keys, sampler, voice) propels them beyond the box of 'experimental indie pop' into far outer atmospheric strata of synesthetic adventure. Perplexed, I listen regularly to Mason Proper's tunes from this [...]