Morning Teleportation is a quintet of Portland-based maniacs suffering from a brilliant case of musical ADD. They’re signed to Glacial Pace, the label founded by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, who co-produced Expanding Anyway, MT’s excellent debut album. It’s easy to see what attracted Brock — frontman Tiger Merritt’s quivery vocal yelp and demented, eclectic six-string attack suggests Modest Mouse on a life-altering acid binge. These guys are out to blow your mind (and eardrums) from the word go — “Boom Puma” sets the template with backwoods screams, gnarly riffage and a hilarious, deafening talkbox guitar solo from Merritt that would make Peter Frampton cream his jeans. But what makes the band so compelling is its willingness to experiment; “Wholehearted Drifting Sense of Inertia” morphs from punk thrust to marshy disco stomp to synth-driven psychedelics, all in a cool nine minutes. Subtlety’s overrated.
Sign up. We hope you like us, but if you don't, you can unsubscribe by following the links in the email, or by dropping us a note at leo@leoweekly.com.
Signup
By clicking “subscribe” above, you consent to allow us to contact you via email, and store your information using our third-party Service Provider. To see more information about how your information is stored and privacy protected, visit our policies page.
Subscribe to LEO Weekly Newsletters
Sign up. We hope you like us, but if you don't, you can unsubscribe by following the links in the email, or by dropping us a note at leo@leoweekly.com.
To sign up now, enter your email address in the field below and click the Subscribe button.
By clicking “Subscribe” above, you consent to allow us to contact you via email, and store your information using our third-party Service Provider. To see more information about how your information is stored and privacy protected, visit our policies page.
