A. Grimes ruminates on hipsters, hip-hop and pigs eating pigs
Creepy foursome plays a benefit for Oiler the dog on Sunday, April 10 at WonderRoot
M.I.L.F. by A. Grimes
"M.I.L.F."
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A. Grimes, the Husseins, Red Sea, Trench Party and the Clap play a benefit for Oiler the dog on Sunday, April 10 at WonderRoot. $5. 9 p.m. 982 Memorial Dr. 404-254-5955.
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Chad Radford: Tell me your names and what you do in A. Grimes.
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Gage Gilmore: I’m Gage and I play bass.
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Britt Teusink: Britt. I sing and play guitar.
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Who’s missing today?
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BT: Mike Bailey plays drums and Kenneth Figueroa plays keyboard.
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We spoke a while back, just before your former bassist, Cole Grant, was about to leave to become a white water rafting instructor…
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BT: He went on a hippie mission.
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GG: He’s a river guy and does it every summer.
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You replaced him but you were in the band before, right?
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GG: There’s been some confusion over that. I was with Britt when he came up with the concept for the band, but was too busy to be in the band. Cole was there form the beginning.
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What’s the concept?
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GG: Britt always describes it like he’s writing folk songs and we kind of dement them with the rhythms section.
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BT: The songs are similar to hip-hop in how they’re structured.
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GG: Harmonically there’s not a lot going on, but we’ll introduce new ideas through the bass and drums.
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Some people tell me that they think your music is jazzy, but I would say “gypsy-esque.”
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GG: There is a jazz feel to certain parts of it, and there are times when me and the drummer, Mike Bailey, play with a swing feel. The gypsy thing comes from the folkiness of the songs, there’s a lot of strummy, jangling guitar going on.
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BT: I take regular open-position chords and put them together in an ugly way — go from pretty to a little bit of ugly, and then more ugly. I am kind of obsessed with gypsy scales, too. Even my hip-hop beats are done in Gypsy scales.