Photos/Story by Jake Seaton
When you’re a young band in need of filling a vacancy in your lineup, you may daydream of recruiting some of the biggest names in the game. But realistically, getting those names on board probably isn’t going to happen.
That is unless you are Chicago-based Krautrock band Disappears.
Through a mutual friend, Disappears was introduced to Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley — you may have heard him on every Sonic Youth album since EVOL — and as fate would have it, Steve dug what he heard.
Surrounded by vintage machines in the Raleigh Denim workshop on Martin Street, Steve recalled, “Our friend Jeremy … took me to see the band at The Hideout in Chicago and I just immediately thought they were a great band.”
“When you like something, you like it. I just liked the attitude — the whole package.”
Recalling Sonic Youth and even another side project of Steve’s, Hallogallo 2010, Disappears derives its sound from a minimalist approach of loud guitars and repetition.
“It’s repetitive, it’s minimal, it’s fun as hell,” guitarist Brian Case (ex-Ponys) explained. “It’s kind of a wash of guitar with strong rhythms underneath it and sort of aggressive vocals — a call to arms, in a sense.”
Brian continued, “Really simple, repetitive, first instinct kind of stuff. It’s taken a while to get it where it is now — sort of refine it.”
Forming in 2008 as a super group of sorts of Chicago prog and garage bands, Disappears has released two full-lengths to date — 2010′s Lux and 2011′s Guider — and is eager to get back into the studio to record the songs they’ve written since the addition of Steve.
“We’ve been playing a lot this year, and we’ve worked a lot on these new tunes,” Brian said. “We’re at the point where we’re still excited about them and new things are happening every time we play them.”
Bassist Damon Carruesco added, “I think we’re at a particular point in our musical development where we’re all playing really well, and I think that playing with Steve has really elevated our playing.”
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