Ripping out your haze-brain, deep frying it with pickles and Oreos, then stuffing it back into the socket you call a skull, MOPE GROOVES clears the rock-playing field. Like the grittiest, pulp-paged CRACKED magazine, these Portland garage/basement dwellers pretty much awake in yesterday’s haze of left overs and slop up songs as fast as grinding up, rolling, and slow smoking every last bit before re-upping. Then along came the WEIRD GIRLS, following their split last year with Lamebrain on Burger Records and Gnar Tape. And I believe the faux-gender-queer/drag/cross-dressing video below (starting TMT fame-monster , @dead_bae, amongst other current residents of PDX’s Gnarnia office; directed by Dan Stump), is more of an album teaser than anything, because it fronts on all levels of calmly crude tropes, but also some aquatics. Personally, I love fish tanks. Yeah, here: peep the phrasing I got in an e-mail “[the video] zips through the first two cuts on the album with a clip as dense and macabre as it is brief.”
Unfortunately, the peep we get of MOPE GROOVES’ “WEIRD GIRLS / DON’T SLEEP IN YOUR JEANS” is merely that, as I’m sorta DYING for everything Gnar, Burger, and Lolipop releases. Also, now I’m thinking I should totally go as FISH for Halloween, but to where? Maybe just find some basements to linger and shove my arms and hands out of while Trick-or-Treaters walk by. Fuck it, I’ll continue to just grab bag people’s shoes until WEIRD GIRLS drops like a hot-steamy November 4 in digital, LP, and CS formats on Gnar Tapes, Burger Records, and Lolipop Records. Even THEN I’ll probably encrust myself and dwell and linger and love me some MOPE GROOVES. Smoke on it below:
• MOPE GROOVES: http://mopegrooves.bandcamp.com
• Gnar Tapes: http://gnartapes.com
• Burger Records: http://www.burgerrecords.org
• Lolipop Records: http://lolipoprecords.com