One Million Safe Hours . Listen to this disc on headphones and it's like your head is trapped inside a very small, very intense electrical storm. Last week, as the band looked forward to a West Coast tour and a hint of national buzz, I sat members John Krausbauer and Matt Ogburn down to discuss Mechakucha's unified field theory. We hear that the first pressing of 1,000 is almost gone. I'm not sure who the hell is buying this thing, but someone is.
Some people are a little bit scared of instrumental music, but it seems to be going all right.
You guys don't fit in either way. Well, Portland's roots are pretty much in pop punk, and that seems to continue to be the case and maybe it will be forever. But any town you go to, unless you're talking about New York, L.A. or Chicago, most of the underground music will be based in pop punk. And we're kind of against that. My idea is that art should be about going forward, about challenging things.