A Faulty Chromosome

Summary by Kathryn Durfee

A Faulty Chromosome is an indie-slop / shoegaze-bop / nowave-pop band from Austin, TX. This will be their first year at Athens PopFest.

They are a big mess of fuzzy tremolo, paddy-cake hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged mister rogers records, mashed casio chords and drum machine'd beats.

At worst, enjoyable noise. At best, a charming mess. Sort of sounds like the Feelies + New Order + Half Japanese + My Bloody Valentine + the Shaggs + Suicide, if you can imagine that.

Five Questions with A Faulty Chromosome

1. What are your five desert island records?

Phyllis Dillion - One Life to Live (for lounging and such), Herb Alpert - Summertime (for hut-cleaning inspiration), Afrika Bambaataa & Jazzy Jay's Death Mix (for parties), Joao Gilberto in Mexico (for beachcombing), Arab on Radar - Queen Hygeine II (for spearfishing). As an added bonus, all of these albums are absolutely impossible to get sick of.

2. Could you classify your sound for people who haven't heard it before?

umm... indie-slop -or- shoegaze-bop -or- nowave-pop; a big mess of fuzzy tremolo, paddy-cake hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged mister rogers records, mashed casio chords and drum machine'd beats.

3. What is your favorite place to play, and why?

The greatest place to play was, is, and will always be some sort of basement/backyard/houseparty put on in nowheresville where the kids are excited to be there smuggling vodka in their gatorade bottles and the older folk aren't so concerned with keeping up their hipster image at their local cool-guy bar.

4. What is the weirdest thing you take on tour?

one of those little white noise machines used to put crying babies to sleep.

5. What should people expect from your Athens PopFest performance?

smiles. spazzy dancing. cupcakes. confusion. buttons. free portraits. a spectacle. swimming trunks w/ chicken legs

Download Music by A Faulty Chromosome

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