Experimental Aircraft
Posted by Scott
Jeff Toll turned me on to a new group tonight: the Austin, TX based psych-rock outfit Experimental Aircraft. Loving the intensity of this particular track, “Upper East Side” from their “Third Transmission” album. On a side note, the album cover was auto-generated in MS Paint as part of a machine intelligence experiment. First a machine is fed basic parameters and then it generates various shapes, at each step randomly determining whether or not to anti-alias the shapes. It then adds a lens flare.
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frank says:
November 26, 2008 at 9:43 amDid the machine pick Bank Gothic too?
Brian says:
November 26, 2008 at 9:54 amoh man…. yeah they are awesome… i love anything remotely shoegaze.
travis says:
November 26, 2008 at 12:01 pmI’m gonna have to agree. I really digging this group. I love the raw sound… reminds me of that group from New York… Interpol… feels a little more raw though. Another great band that I have been into lately is Vietnam. http://www.myspace.com/vietnamtheband
RandyPan says:
November 26, 2008 at 1:11 pmInteresting idea for the computer art “experiment”. I have a hard time calling MS paint experimental.
Scott says:
November 26, 2008 at 2:37 pmtravis-
thanks for the link, I will check them out.
randaypan-
I was kidding, I just figured that was the only reasonable explanation for this cover.
Blake Barton says:
November 26, 2008 at 3:28 pmBrian-
I don’t really hear anything “remotely shoegaze” until the droning distortion of guitar near the end…I can see a slight Interpol similarity as Travis pointed out though. Just seems like solid rock with a New Wave sensibility (the backing vocals etc). Pretty cool.
All-
The cover of the album looks like a bad Trans Am album cover. Like if the albums Futureworld, Sex Change, TA, and the Self Titled one all produced one ugly offspring. And then the Extremixx EP spat on the baby for a finishing touch.
zenza says:
November 27, 2008 at 1:23 pmI love your blog for many reasons, one of them being all the new bands I hear about that I love almost instantly.
Norik says:
November 28, 2008 at 2:37 pmthat’s the best explanation for bad artwork i’ve ever heard.
Andrew J. says:
November 30, 2008 at 11:53 pmits like a worse version of interpol mixed with the killers singer. its an ok song though…