It was a cold and easy drive down to Pehrspace on Dec. 30th to catch Hello My Name Is Record’s year end show. Tucked away in an unassuming commercial building dotted with restaurants, it’s a venue where the uninitiated only seem to enter when dragged in by friends; it breeds a level of intimacy in the crowd.
The band I was most impressed with, in part that I hadn’t seen them live up to this point, was the straight ahead punk rockers The Mormons. Donning the missionary garb of white dress shirts, ties, slacks, bike helmets, and backpacks, I knew from first glance the band would be a treat. Their vocalist, Patrick, contorted and shook like a special ed case before ending the show by crawling under a rug and letting the crowd drag him away. I should be wearing a bike helmet too, my skull feels like it was cut open and the Mormons took a hand blender to it.
The Mormons recently released their EP, Forge Ahead, on their own label MorMusic. It’s available for purchase and download at CDBaby. For fans of Bad Brains, Fugazi, or even Devo, it’s a fresh musical fix.
-Angelo Lorenzo