From their records, it sounds like Ice Balloons are trying to be the Sonic Youth of the digital age, or maybe the Suicide of the new millennium – both pretty fascinating ideas: electro-lofi-noise-rock madness! The band released their debut, self titled album about one year ago, and it’s… insane. But not necessarily impossible to appreciate, in particular when the vocals and the bass follow some kind of discernable song pattern, like in our favorite song "Dragonfly," streaming. On the other hand there’s nothing discernable, ever, about the digital noise created by their keyboards, whose granular wall of sound is like a permanent, rough sonic sea in which the other musical element alternatively drown and float. The guys have TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone as an occasional band member, and enjoy wearing costumes live. Their show at Baby’s All RIght on November 26 should be fun – with earplugs.
