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Sea Moss’ music flirts with composition and experimentation, blending dance rhythms with angular changes in meter and a cacophony of analog noise, all delivered at a frantic pace while still managing to achieve the status of “something you can dance to”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sea-moss-miscomings-lp","title":"Sea Moss \/ Miscomings - Big Tube Scene","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003erelease date June 26th - shipping now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eBig Tube Scene\u003c\/em\u003e is an act of collaboration and mutual admiration. The split LP features music from two Pacific Northwest bands, bridging the experimental sounds of Seattle and Portland. In spring of 2023, \u003cstrong\u003eMiscomings\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSea Moss\u003c\/strong\u003e were booked on the same bill by pure chance, at a spot in Portland which functioned as a coffee shop by day and an all ages punk venue by night. The evening marked the budding of a beautiful friendship fueled by shared sonic proclivities and a general love of rhythm and noise. Though the aforementioned venue has since shut down, the musical alliance lives on. Big Tube Scene cauterizes a meeting of musicians into permanence. The split as a format is a way for musicians to lift each other up, merging worlds and drawing lines between kindred aesthetics. In the true form of collective spirit, each side ends with a cacophonous collaborative track, aptly titled Seacomings and Mismoss, recorded live in a Seattle studio with all six musicians performing in unison. 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But on vinyl, it's possible to ponder the structural and lyrical gambits they use to attack each other. The lyrics, at least what I think I can make out of them, explode like strings of haiku written during a particularly hectic game of Exquisite Corpse. And the instrumental portions of the tunes often sound as though they were written for a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eChrome\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tribute concert to be performed by lighthouse foghorns. The other day, while I was playing this in the store, someone commented that the vocals reminded them of very early \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuerilla Toss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. I pointed out that while there might be some small surface similarities, the utter weirdness of the underlying music pretty much negated comparison. Then I threw them out. Sea Moss is doing some crazy shit. Don't beggar them with comparisons. 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