By Jen Paulson 07.08.08 12:42 PM
Mae Shi’s Jon Gray and Jeff Byron / Photo by JON BEHM
Making their entrance by weaving through the crowd to the stage, L.A. noise rockers the Mae Shi brought their loud, spastic, and over-reactive sound to Minneapolis’ Uptown Bar last night (July 7th). The set’s second song, “I Get (Almost) Everything I Want,” was barebones instrumentally but full of cathartic harmonies and buoyed by a powerful chorus.
This quartet of frantic Californians, who released their fourth and most recent album, HLLLYH, back in February, have been around since 2003, mixing the LOUDquietLOUD of the Pixies with the spastic blurt of early Modest Mouse, tossing in a bit of their own howling, bratty singsong punk.
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