Ashrae Fax Static Crash

Sometimes the greatest bands arrive from the most unlikely of places and slightest of circumstances. Sometimes, even less. We came from nothing, says Ashrae Fax vocalist Renee Mendoza, now a full decade removed from the release of their final work, Static Crash!. We were art kids growing up in a town that didnt have shit in it. Yet that stagnation brought Haran together with producer and guitarist Alex Chesney, for a partnership driven by the desire to create, and ultimately destroy, through the power of their music. Static Crash! is magic, one of the most gorgeous collections of Gothic ethereal pop/noise of its kind to rise from the American underground in decades. One could easily believe its origin to be from 1983, or 1993, or even 2013. But its 2003 release found few takers, outside of a small but dedicated local following. At a time when rock & roll was obnoxiously forcing its way back from the morass of pre-millennial digital aimlessness and DJ culture and at the same tim