Music: dead mellotron

February 4, 2009

ghost-light-constellation-ep

You know how when you have a MySpace account you are constantly getting friend requests from bands? And you know how most of those bands are not anything you are into, or are terrible, or most likely both? I usually check out the music before I deny a band since if they worked hard enough to find my MySpace account I should at least give them something for the effort (a click). Well for the first time… probably ever, a band sent me an invite and not only were decent, they were down right awesome. Also they were giving their EP out for free so Awesome++

I really wish I could tell you more about dead mellotron but his MySpace is quite uninformative and a Google search pulls up a song by the band Neon Blonde. All I can get is that it seems to be some dude from Monroe, Louisiana. But I guess he was thinking that the music should speak for itself, which would make him correct.

I am a sucker for dreaming, ambient, shoegaze rock/pop. I’ve been listening to this EP on repeat now and I’ve been trying to nail him down; Early 90s for sure, I can hear a little My Bloody Valentine (sans axes being thrown in my face thank-you-very-much), Mew, and even a little Blonde Redhead. I’ve put up my favorite track but you can download the entire EP for free at their MySpace page.

Edit: I took down the song since something happened to it when I uploaded it. Whatever, check out their myspace.

dead mellotron Myspace

7 Responses to “Music: dead mellotron”

  1. ethan says:

    hi there. i know him. Dead Mellotron is his side project from his band Jealous Wives.
    (myspace.com/jealouswives) he is pretty much your typical all around GREAT musician. he has been in many different bands… well 3 that i know of, ranging from punk rockish to his recent ambient style.

    hope that helps you out any.
    ethan

  2. ethan says:

    oh and yes… its only ONE GUY in the band

  3. emy says:

    Hi! It happened to me the same and I did the same: talk about them in my “blog”. I REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT, they’re special.

  4. DEAD MELLOTRON was our highlighted artist on this week’s RUC N’ROll radioshow! Check it out at our blog rucnroll.blogspot.com

  5. avi says:

    Apparently Dead Mellotron has a new album that came out 2/22/10 and it was a free download but I can’t find it. Any have any live links?

  6. Hmm, the link on their MySpace is broken. I’ll keep my eye out, thanks!

Leave a Reply