12. Malaria!Compiled
AM: A band with punctuation in their name, you have to love that.
NK: With them I am constantly like, ‘how does this music exist?’ It’s so inspiring and during the time period they were doing it too. Plus being all female.
AM: It interweaves between being really ugly and nauseous to super poppy and polished.
NK: Like the song ‘You You’, it starts off super pop but then the vocal is just a dirge, it’s unlike anything.
AM: I remember a version of this early song of ours ‘Glue Your Eyelids Together’, it was super pop and everything was in tune. It felt like it was in place to be a hit and that made us grossed out so Malaria! was a big influence in terms of taking things out of tune and out of sync and just really adding this ugly factor to it so that you weren’t comfortable. I guess in our music we have like a litmus test hurdle, like if you can get over this hurdle then you’re one of us.
NK: They are also really good at being both rhythmic and on the verge of chaos.
