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The Mall
November 16th, 2006 | 
Author: MySpace (listen to “A Dead Science,” “Favorite Past”)
Official site
Hometown: San Francisco
Next local show: 11/18, Mezzanine
Recent release: Emergency at the Everyday, 2006
Mall-punk it ain’t: The Mall play a hyper, condensed mix of noise, prog, and math-rock. Emergency at the Everyday, their debut full-length, is never particularly easy on the ears, but it can be a lot of fun. Ellery Samson’s vocals (and screams) are distorted and distant, as if filtered through ten feet of chicken wire and razor blades (actually he sang through an old rotary telephone hooked up to a PA.). Above him, uneasy rhythms crash and destruct as keyboards (Daniel Tierney) and drums (Adam Cimino) continually piece them back together. The tension between accessible melodies and the persistent element of noise makes the record what it is — simultaneously grating and irresistible.
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