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"NEVER say never. It's a fine line between cutting your cloth to fit and ending up in a stylistic straitjacket because you lack the confidence to move on. What initially helped mark you out from the pack can – if you’re resistant to change - end up as an albatross. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Modey Lemon understand this well. Their one rule? No rules.
After trimming to a duo around five years ago and establishing themselves as idiosyncratic players in the brotherhood of mean 'n' moody, bass-free garage rockers, guitarist/vocalist/Moog mangler Phil Boyd and drummer Paul Quattrone later came to feel it was time to add another number to their righteously rowdy rank. To that end, around 18 months ago they recruited engineer Jason Kirker, who also plays keys, effects (notably, a customised box of tricks called a Tri-wave Peako Generator) and bass.
Boyd tracks the decision to dynamically overhaul the band back to a tour of America’s West Coast in April 2003. It was their last tour as a duo and an awakening of sorts. 'The Iraqi war broke out,' he explains, 'and there was this chain of events: we’d been a two-piece for years and there were all these things we wanted to do musically; plus, being on the edge of America where the mountains and the ocean meet meant there was something about our geographical circumstances, such that we knew we wanted to embrace change and chase something bigger.'
The 'something bigger' is the sound of 'The Curious City', Modey Lemon’s second, full-length UK release. It sees them not only blasting away from their retro-obsessed peers at Mach 10 speed, but also subtly shifting the shape of the psychedelic/sci-fi synth-rock that defined them with 2004’s 'Thunder + Lightning'. Where abrasive guitar riffs, serrated keyboard runs and wild, textured electronic noise once dominated, there are now songs with recognisable – if wayward and wiggy – structure. Modey Lemon's sound is no less fucked-up, of course - it’s simply been pulled into focus. As Quattrone sees it: 'It was somewhat of a conscious effort to not be so garage-y. It wasn’t that we had to change who we were; we just wanted to embrace other sounds and ideas we were kind of afraid to embrace before."
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