Joining “us” in this article / pseudo-interview is Nils Frykdahl, lead singer and guitarist. It must surely take quite a few rehearsals to choreograph something like that. All of them, including their flailing scrap-metal percussionist, rock out in superimposed polyrhythms with a raw intensity and attitude that is not often packaged with such rehearsed, scholarly prose and complex musical arrangements. The rest of the members look equally terrifying in motif. Their drummer wears a full-headed donkey mask. The content of their show ranges from horrific blasts of chaotic sonic dismemberment to enchanting string and woodwind orchestrations. They are, by far, the most challenging and exciting weirdo-rock band I have added to my mental jukebox in over a decade. Their bassist, Dan Rathbun (a top-notch producer / engineer), has three mohawks. Walk up and introduce yourself and you may end up with a handful of it like I did.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is a seemingly five-member confederacy of freakishly detail-oriented orchestra geeks and / or rejected metallurgists that drive around in dilapidated bus full of handcrafted musical instruments – and they cook their own beans and rice, too. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it since it's quite ballistic and shouty at times, which I thought I'd find very jarring but it fits the tone of the show really well.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Sir Millard Mulch I mentioned this in the Adult Swim thread but in case you didn't know, he also voices the title role in Tigtone, which is a farcical spin on fantasy/adventure media (most notably the logic and overall communication style of RPGs) and is frequently very funny.
Nils Frykdahl's voice is fucking brilliant and I think the way he adapts it for this record to be less focused on the booming baritone theatricals and more on the rasping venom of a metal style (albeit more eclectic and fucking weird) is excellent. Yeah it took me ages to get around to checking it out, but listening to it recently, I agree with you.
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Quote from: Dirty Boy on February 07, 2022, 02:27:52 PMthe Free Salamander Exhibit record, which scales back on the demented conceptual avant-prog somewhat and has more of a song based pure metal sound (but is no less jaw dropping at moments). You get sucked into the story and you can't take your eyes off it. Everything from their weird lore to the outfits to their music is a perfectly conceived project. A bunch of their instruments are handmade by the band and they effectively create an all-encompassing disconcerting atmosphere with their racket. Whether their music is creeping down a dark and dusty hallway or pummelling the living shite out of you, it is almost always very unsettling and nasty, and it sounds fucking amazing. They're most certainly an avant-garde group but you could cosy that term up nicely alongside art rock and metal for sure. When you're a bairn there's a lot of stuff you're likely to hear that makes you think "Wow, I had no idea music like this existed." SGM fall on the extreme end of that scale to the point where some 15 years later I still find myself consistently astonished by the sounds they produced. I remember a friend getting me into them when I was young and impressionable. How seriously you choose to take this all depends on how much you're willing to become invested in the band's music, which is astonishingly good. The name itself apparently comes from a poem called "Of the Future Hides the Past," written by Museum members Lala Rolo and Ikk Ygg. The following day, the museum was closed (hence the name of the first album). The exhibit consisted of a fire which caused widespread chaos and confusion. The "museum" opened on J(the same day as the band's first concert, 83 years later). The group owned and operated what they called a "museum of the future" which was "anti-artifact, non-historical and closed."
Quote from: WikipediaAccording to the extensive liner notes for Grand Opening and Closing, the name "Sleepytime Gorilla Museum" comes from a small group of Dadaists, Futurists, and artists named the Sleepytime Gorilla Press.