 indie rock photography by jasper coolidge     
The Comas 09.08.04
@ Mercury Lounge NYC The origin of one of my favorite lyrics "we love it when you fall apart you're turning into higher art..." - The Comas - Tonight on the WB was most likely a mystery to most. Well, mystery solved - to me as well - as last night was my inaugural foray into the interstellar world of The almighty Comas. Before launching into just how sickeningly gorgeous this performance was - let me backtrack and digress into how I found out about them in the first place. In a most unconventional twist, Comas leader Andy actually came into Pianos some months ago, boldly pressed through the usual B&T usuals, charged into the secret hidden office, finding me at the tail end of my 4th Maker's, and literally stuck in my hand the CD/DVD Conductorthat upon first listen/viewing began the long distance slow motion love affair that was finally consummated this night - acoustically no less. Seeing a band live in the unplugged manner is kinda like skipping bases in the dating game. Lyrics, skills, voices, and cohesion are all the more exposed - none of which are being presented in the same way that a recorded album hurtles them into the cold hard world. In this sense, Andy and company took quite the courageous chance performing in front of 100 or so nubiles to their existence. And also in that sense they came through with warp-speed flying colors - their majestic tales of love and rockets taking on an immediate urgency that the proper production and electro crunchy bells and whistles always seemed to promise at their core. The Comas are Radiohead-ish stuff for Superchunker-ish fans - basically the music that I've been waiting for for 30 years and more than appropriately are playing my 31st birthday bash next month. The Comas' Myspace |
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