If you don't recall (it was several, several, frozen months ago), Cinnamon Aluminum was a Buffalo psy-prog-psych-pop band that put out a bunch of confounding records and videos, played at one of our parties, and made a few of our year-end best-of lists throughout their duration before quietly breaking up last fall. Since, founder/multi-instrumentalist/programmer Kristachuwan (aka Chris Svoboda), has become increasingly active; he's leaked tracks and visuals, and embarked on a bizarre art tour with noise/party proprietor Lesionread in an apparent, continual attempt to remind us to always have question marks hovering over our heads.

Check out his latest offering: the video for “PUMP,” a selection from the upcoming, free, multimedia Beachers EP. The song itself lures you into a dark, convoluted groove with downtempo beats and ringing drones, and is accompanied by some Creepy-As-Heck visuals. It will give you nightmares. Kristachuwan is underappreciated in his adeptness for multi-sensory, brain-scraping projects, so keep and ear/eye/pineal gland out for upcoming adventures (along with a show at Coxland later this month with Lesionread, UVB-76, and Copy Manager, where he'll be performing material from Beachers).

~ Photo by Ethan Calabrese