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Columbus’ Melty Melty, Thursday at the Pearl
Music is simple to the Columbus born space-tinged, indie-pop band Melty Melty. In fact simplicity is what they strive for.
When Melty Melty formed about a year ago, co-founders, Sean Gardner and Kevin Davidson, determined that the point of the band would be to play simple pop songs.
Both musicians had successes in the Columbus rock scene prior to MM as part of the Fugazi-ish rock outfit Kopaz. But years of playing technical rock music can wear out the fingers and the band called it quits despite major label interest in 2005.
Refreshed and re-inspired the two have joined up with drummer Mark Hemmal to create a sound that is eighty-five percent Midwest, ten-percent Northwest, and five percent outer space. A bit dreamy at times, yet always honest, MM mixes in vibraphones, samples, keys, and vocal effects along with the guitar, bass, and drums.
The band began a tour last Friday in Chicago and are coming through Dayton on Thursday, 12/14, to play a show at the Pearl. To hear Melty Melty’s newest songs off their forthcoming 2007 ep, visit www.myspace.com/meltymelty or meltymelty.com.
When I caught up with Sean he was trying to fight off a cold and was hopped up on Codeine, but he still sounded excited about the band’s first tour.
KN - I heard this tour was slightly unexpected and came together very quickly?
SG - Yea we booked the whole tour really late. We were asked to play The Empty Bottle in Chicago about a month ago and decided to try to book a few more shows to play while we were on the road. The tour will last a week and will include stops in Omaha, Iowa, St. Louis, and Urbana, Illinois. The Urbana show will be with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin who is on Polyvinyl.
KN - What is We Want Action records?
SG - That is a record label we started five years ago in Columbus. We had Southern Distribution and we did pretty well. We put out some of the 84 Nash records. All our bands started breaking up so the label stalled for a bit.
KN - What is the delay on putting out the ep?
SG - Well unfortunately, Mark’s Mac 5 died on him a while back and we lost everything that we had recorded for the ep. It sucks, but when we get back off tour we are going to re-record it. It might be for the best though because now we have some new songs to include on the ep.
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By Joe Anderl
December 12, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this
Melty Melty is one of the best bands in the region and I highly suggest that Dayton show these dudes from Columbus a good time. Great Band.