Collisions - Villain's Spirit

Hailing from the Los Angeles, CA. Collisions are the newest band to emerge from the club Smell scene. Fresh out of high school. As teenagers who would ditch school for band practice when they first started out, the band’s influences included a who’s who of the early ‘00s New York indie scene –The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Strokes, and the Walkmen. Recently they’ve looked more towards art rock and shoegaze artists such as Abe Vigoda, Animal Collective, Aa, and Explosions in the Sky – and it shows up in their frenetic, unstructured songs that run all around the place and back again, and which only include lyrics “because it’s necessary.” But while most bands would be lucky to have one, or maybe two multi-instrumentalists, all four members of Collisions are in constant rotation when it comes to their instrument of choice, either at a songwriting session or at a show.  At practice, the method of deciding who plays what is so haphazard and simple – whoever arrives first gets their pick – that it’s amazing how solid the songs are with the ever-changing lineup.  Nonetheless, Rodriguez tells us that this Collisions trademark might be slowly phased out as the band members try to find their niche with their primary instruments. “Expanding our sound and experimenting - that’s what we’re all about.  We have ADD with music, and we want the next thing to be better and better,” says Rodriguez.  “Villain’s Spirit was just about us finding ourselves, but now we know exactly what we want to do musically.  That’s why every song on the record is so different.” “We’re better at our instruments now, and we know how to work together,” adds Perez. “Now we can move on to brand new things.” For only being 18-20 years old, Collisions are doing fairly well for themselves -- they've been together about 4 years now and just got signed to Santa Cruz label S.A.F. Records.

Tracks : 1. Skeleton Party, 2. Yankosky 2:49, 3. Kelso 3:00, 4. Glassboat 2:44, 5. (Braille) 3:19, 6. Triangle 3:58, 7. Broken Circuit 3:27, 8. Westchester 4:06, 9. Human Interaction 3:12, 10. Pluto 3:13, 11. Away Lions

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