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"Sedi Nayc" - released October 2009

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New musical upstarts Frances Allen and Josh McClain are based out of Los Angeles and make music for wizards, teenaged moms, and high powered CEOs at Microsoft. There are a wide and differing sort of musical infuences which include anything from nu rocktronic bands like Railcars and Lucky Dragons to 13th Floor Elevators and The Locust. Although what they listen to, very apparently, has not much to do with the final product. Warning: an early eighties nihilist -goth meets Krautrock glaze lies lightly over much of everything recorded. It's easy to see, if Kraftwerk were to take opiates laced with hallucinogens and rock candy, it might have resulted in Cyan Ides, the only exception being a track off of the debut release entitled "Hesperion Gardens". Even here, over a celebratory beat and bassline Allen shoots down party culture as being an ultimate waste of time. Artificially sweetened synths, pertinent drums programmed within an inch of nano life writhing along with the occasional party pulse drum and bass 808 under ornate guitars frame the picturesque lyrical melodies that ensue.
The band came to life in the summer of 2009, playing their first show to folkies. They clearly stood out, and Allen proceeded to imitate hanging herself on stage with the mic cable. Everyone was happy, ate dinner together, and went home. Original band member Kevin Polzer and Frances played a slew of summer shows (suicide free) to follow and the two began the process of piecing together five songs out of a 20 piece collection. Many were worked on between London, Nashville, and Los Angeles. The child of mixed efforts came born with one horn: dance-pop, quasi-choir like, with a vague promise of living, breathing, intelligent electronic music. This ep "Sedi Nayc" so named due to the bands juvenile fixation on reading words backwards, served as their first representation to an indie rock world populated by the likes of Mika Miko, Health, and others hailing from the underground Los Angeles DIY hardcore and dancepunk scene, but when Allen met guitarist Josh McClain in the fall of 2009, a new sound, as well as a more visually pinning live show developed and Kevin left the band to persue solo efforts.
The bands body of work in it's present state, by comparison to early efforts, is slightly more organic. Not quite finding the need for a bassist, and dreading the world of craigslist drummers, the two went about daily Cyan Ides business of preparing a new body of work with plans for eventually pulling other musicians into the mix. With an upcoming self released single in Spring of 2009, the two continue to work on an album slated for release in the fall of 2010. The influence of Josh's more melodic inclinations as well as penchant for hooky and intricate guitar work make the future quite promising for this new band hatched moping and dreaming out of L.A.' s nu-wave underbelly.