Forget about Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, The Residents, Psychic TV, SPK, Negativeland. Forget about them - you've never heard them before. Don't try to reach for some easy catch-phrase. This band is gonna knock them right out of your head. Your whole frame of references must be re-evaluated, re-written and re-learned.
Belching forth shards of brutal noise and tranquil beauty, Bar/None Records is proud to unleash the four song self-titled debut by New York's Miracle Room. Originally from Austin, Texas, the group moved to Manhattan in 1989 and has quickly become a mainstay on the New York scene - regularly playing clubs like The Knitting Factory, CBGB's and The Pyramid to standing room audiences. Fans and critics alike have been awed by the sound and visual spectacle that is Miracle Room. They have performed regularly at The New Music Seminar, College Media Journal Conventions and were recently asked to take part in New Music America as part of The Brooklyn Academy of Music's prestigious Next Wave Festival.
Miracle Room use a mix of found and hand made instruments in combination with the more typical Western rock set-up of bass, guitar and drums to create sounds previously unimagined. Tribal and barbaric, yet profoundly haunting and hypnotic, they use electrified crates, water jugs, drills, propane tanks, doors and pieces of metal to create a polyrhythmic thunderstorm. Welcome to the Miracle Room.
"Wildly hypnotic and inventive...If Einsturzende Neubauten suddenly began to enjoy the smell of flowers and the sound of birds, if Savage Republic stayed out in the desert sun a bit longer than they already have, if the Buttholes got more artsy or if the Reverb Motherfuckers had Sun Ra on their side, then you might have something resembling Miracle Room." - College Media Journal
"Drums reverberate like an Indian war dance, coil like a copperhead snake straddling Miracle Room in a limbo somewhere between the still of the sand and a crowded Indian market." - Rockpool
...whereas a modern "alternative" band reveals a consistent attitude, these guys have no ideological pigeonholes. The band uses effects to sprinkle salt on the tail of a sonic event and grab on to it for emphasis or further contemplation." - The Boston Phoenix
"My favorite live acts of '89 were Miracle Room, 24-7 Spyz, Pere Ubu, Sean Colvin, Bob Mould, Marianne Faithfull, Michelle Shocked, Thelonius Monster and Elvis Costello." - The New York Press
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