WEAVE! (California, USA)
Published 25 months ago
This four-piece Californian band by way of Ivory Coast, answer our questions in the most indirect way possible.
- Text by Sarah Fakray
Keeping overdramatic capitalisation and punctuation alive are WEAVE!, four Californians who don't seem to be able to give a straight answer to anything. Their experimental, rhythmic afro-pop and new wave combines ESG-style basslines with flat-sounding vocals that are probably actually in tune. The band's full-length will be released on Manimal Vinyl this autumn, and you can stream WEAVE!'s unreleased single Man He Can here.
Q&A
What's…
… your description of your sound?
Coyotes killing. Hearts beating. Doors slamming. Lovers snoring. Doves crying.
… so special about you, then?
Our keyboard player dates John Waters.
… the story behind your name?
Look up the unbeweavable Briana Bonds.
… your worst vice?
Sparks in the morning.
… your dream musical collaboration?
We really want to stage our soul/funk opera about a a giant centipede that attacks a small Caribbean island. Rebbie Jackson plays the island's queen who saves her people from destruction. Billy Ocean plays the villain. WEAVE! are a gang of Marxist guerilla headhunters.
… your tip for 2009?
Goin' from Jank to bank – fingers and legs crossed.
… on your stereo?
Bryan: "Tighten Up, Vol. 88" by Big Audio Dynamite
Ivory: Static (Ivory is minus a radio)
Alex: "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie
Nicole: "Bizarre Ride II" by the Pharcyde
… the best piece of advice you've heard?
Don't tear art's face off.
… the one thing you’d kill for?
Crab legs and popcorn shrimps.
… your vision of the future?
We're having enough trouble with the present...
