This band was featured in one of this site's earliest posts, so go check out the strange beauty that is "Let Me Free." "Mirror" is more motorik and restrained, with some cool ambient sax near the end. The bassline is very elegant and sexy, a great example of less being more. As with most of these minimalistic songs I post, there is more going on than one might realize at first listen. The way the vocal melody weaves in and out of the bassline is very impressive, and Ricky Williams' vocal performance is just spectacular, full of both mischief and pathos. Yes, he was the Freddie Mercury of punk rock. This is one of those songs that really has to be played loudly.
Oddly fascinating cover art of the 7"
This song's melodic aesthetic must've come as a bit of a shock to the band's punk comrades in San Francisco. The single's b-side, "Theory," is even more minimalistic and icy. As with "Let Me Free," I took this song off of the band's compilation CD The Less An Object, put out by Tim/Kerr Records in 1996. It'll reach you.
This is possibly the official music video, though it cuts off halfway through:
A dustbin with helpful instructions that I saw at the Home Depot in Elmwood, 10/15/09:
Planets with similar climates: The Church - "Fly" (1983), Pink Industry - "What I Wouldn't Give" (1985), Christian Death - "Desperate Hell" (1981), The Comsat Angels - "Another World" (1981).
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