MiniBoone
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Website
Bio
If you've been hanging around any of the dingy rooms the kids flock to for new music in coastal Brooklyn, odds are you've been hearing a bit about the spastic exuberance of MiniBoone. The instrument switching party that these guys put on has New Yorkers talking all brunch long about the intriguing prospect of Animal Collective's unusually harmonized melodies set over Pavement's guitar noise and the rhythmic adventurism of Talking Heads. The real thing that's keeping the conversation pulsing, though, is the fact that these guys provide one thing that many bands don't deliver these days - a relatable lyrical anthem.
With the release of their new EP, Big Changes, the band is following up their incubator LP release, Stockhausen Supremes Live at the VFW Hall, Batavia, Illinois, February 9, 2008, which they released - complete with a fully functional payment plan via wedding registry - when they were still a two-piece. Shortly after the birth of that LP, they completed their lineup and instrumentation, resulting in the five man musical fun machine currently in action.
Big Changes not only describes the band taking a step forward from their previous endeavor, but it also reflects the different sounds of the EP track to track. Songs like “Summer Jam” and “Devil In Your Eyes” see the band combining dark, clattering rhythms with emotional, immediate lyrics and Beach Boys style harmonies. The band maintains this mix of disjointed rhythms and upfront vocals both when they adopt a Motown cum San Diego Hardcore sound on “Cool Kids Cutout of the Heart Itself”, a track whose vocals supply one of the odder turns in the EP's harmonic frenzy.
As the world's youth continue to define their existence against the ideas of love and confusion, Big Changes and MiniBoone hope to provide a suitable soundtrack.
