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Lesionread is a Buffalo electronic group, led by Shawn Lewis, that wants to succeed! So bad! Every reverberated beat cries for attention: please-please; please-please; please-please. I'm projecting the Lesionread Facebook profile—where the most obvious cute, banal pleas to friendly listeners resound—onto the music a bit, but something within it says it, too. I like attention, so I think understand this kind of music. It's a little obnoxious, but it's also refreshing and gritty. It's music for people who harp because they're genuinely interested in stuff. It's music for inventive, hyper kids, for newly radicalized readers, short-distance travelers, and forgetful lovers. Distracted by its own sound, it manages to get inside your head like good pop music, but is undeniably anti-social.
The wacky explosions of dislodged, swimmy beats sound like they were extracted and recorded from old public television shows or beat speakers. A very young man's lyric is strewn throughout many of the tracks, but it's angry, and drops into dark, ever-deepening pits where it usually breaks a leg.
Lesionread reminds me of Gang Gang Dance when they were weird in a break-out, we-don't-give-a-fucking-shit stage of music-making. The more I listen, the more I like it. So much so that I feel comfortable likening it to Thom Yorke's work. Of course you can't seriously compare anything to Radiohead or Animal Collective, so I'll just say this: for a low-fi, misunderstood, alternative psych project, the music is incredibly rad and oddly relatable.
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