Aaron welcomed Me Oh Myriorama (Devyn Smith) to Live and Local this week, following the release of his new album “Iris.”
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Blending hip hop, rock, pop and electronica, both filial and hypersexual, juxtaposing deeply personal themes with postmodern detachment, “Iris” is hard to classify and unlike just about anything you’ve heard before. (Smith himself describes it as a “metempsychotic pop music project”: make of that what you will.) Its seven tracks explore the general directionless anxiety of the present day, replete with cultural references ranging from the Spice Girls to Don DeLillo to “The Wizard of Oz” to French poet Arthur Rimbaud; it’s also a personal album, named after Smith’s mother.
“Iris” is Smith’s first album as Me Oh Myriorama, after he retired his earlier project Coin Locker Kid. The word “myriorama” originally referred to a 19th-century children’s toy, a set of picture cards that could be arranged in any order; later it came to refer more broadly to anything with imaginative effects, or anything that could be taken apart and reassembled in different orders and fashions. (For Smith, the name works on multiple levels: among other things, its acronym is M.O.M.)
Listen to the full album on Bandcamp.
Me Oh Myriorama stopped by “Live & Local” this week to discuss the album and play three tracks, “Southbound” (Aaron’s favorite), “Fanta Seaworld,” and “Dissociation.”
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