"Human beings take months to gestate, so why shouldn't living, breathing music do so as well? In a labor-intensive marathon, the Coma Lilies' new four-song EP, Memento Mori, was recorded over a staggering 13-month period at Petaluma's famed Grizzly Studios, under the masterful engineering midwifery of Roger Tschann. "There's a lot of detail, a lot of minutiae," says Tschann of the finished product. "It's pretty epic. I think it's some of the coolest, out-there, most different stuff I've come across lately."
In order to fully realize the instrumental richness of sound, the usual effervescent strain of recording became an exhilarating saga, the byproduct of which the band celebrates in a CD release party March 3 at the Black Bean BBQ. It is an EP that will have the listener peering in from the outside, drifting awash in textured layers and technical prowess, asking why things are the way they are. Some are lucky enough to ignore the question;...