Last year, Mi Ami released Steal Your Face (TMT Review), placing them squarely at the top of the spaz-rock mountain. Evidently the view from that mountain was pretty much garbage, because they’ve now set their sights on more electronic mountains. Since bassist Jacob Long left the group last year, remaining members Damon Palermo and Daniel Martin-McCormick have been thinking up ways to make Mi Ami work as a two-piece. Their solution: ditch the whole rock band thing and adopt a new approach based on drum machines, samplers, and keys. They’ve already tested out this new sound on a few singles, but they plan on really introducing it on Dolphins, a 12-inch EP coming out March 15 via Thrill Jockey. The press release describes it as a “melting, dystopian refraction of left-field new age, lush soundscapes, and Italo daydreams overlapping with slaughtered dolphins and the heartbreak of ‘Hard Up.’” I love melting, dystopian refractions of left-field new age! But I hate slaughtered dolphins! Argh!
• Mi Ami: http://www.myspace.com/miamiamiami
• Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com