"The move a few years back from San Diego to Portland was a good one for Minmae frontman Sean Brooks, whose dense, old-school style of indie rock is often offset by moody pacings, atmospherics and lyrical themes (imagine Smog writing less ironic songs for Pavement)." - CMJ NMM "With a decade-plus of depth, very little in the indie rock world straddles melody and six-string mayhem with the type of finesse exhibited on 2005's I'd Be Scared, Were You Still Burning. To put it simply, Minmae makes gold soundz for now people." - ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"I'd Be Scared is the elegant summation of Sean Brooks' many years in the trenches. It's the glam Minmae, the noise Minmae, and the pop Minmae all balanced and realized and folded together, perfect as a paper crane. It's high-grade post-Shins pop, confident, crisply recorded, strong, and agile." - PORTLAND MERCURY
Portland trio Minmae returns with their eighth full-length! Monstre features 11 songs of esoteric riddles buried in song; therapy for the weary traveler grasping for comprehension in an incomprehensible world. Beautiful melodies layered under stark entropic lyricism make Monstre an album that leaves the listener thinking as much drinking...
Minmae has been evolving artistically since its inception. The band rose out of the ashes of Sean Brooks' previous group Thee Psychic Hearts in 1998, with an initial 4-track recording that fell somewhere between the sampling and lo-fi singer/songwriter genres. Once Josh Kempa and Chris Calvert were established as full-time members, the sound began to grow fuller and the recordings more frequent. Each release holds its own place on the sonic spectrum, from deconstructive noise to melodic folk-pop. Last year's I'd Be Scared, Were You Still Burning was Minmae's first release on Portland's Greyday Records, and received much national acclaim.
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