Little Dickman Records Presents Pink Mexico
Robert Preston has played drums for Shilpa Ray and WALTZ, but Pink Mexico is his solo project. Having relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Preston self-released his debut LP, pnik mxeico, in 2013. The project's fuzzy, shoegazy noise pop attracted the attention of Austin label, Fleeting Youth Records, and they re-released pnik mxeico at the end of 2013.
Preston made his way back to Brooklyn in 2014 where he began recording what would become this year's fool. fool is just a great record, combining distortion and noise with Preston's ear for pop hooks. The songs drape Preston's thoughts on life's lows in catchy, surf-inflected garage rock, making for an interesting contrast. Pink Mexico eventually ended up as part of the Burger Records fold, and fool came out on the label in June.
Pink Mexico has now grown into a trio with the additions of Grady Walker and Ian Everall. That band comes to Anchor's Bend on Saturday, September 3rd. They'll be joined on the Little Dickman Records-presented bill by Psychiatric Metaphors and Neptune's Holiday.
I ran a few questions by Pink Mexico's Robert Preston in advance of the show.
You started in Brooklyn, spent some time in LA, and eventually came back to Brooklyn.
Can you talk a little bit about the motivations behind the moves and the differences between those two places?
I was pretty lost living in Brooklyn the first time around, but I developed a close family of friends and right before I moved to LA I recorded the first album with one of them and his name is Jon Granoff.
I adore LA, but I had to move back and record another album, it just made sense. I miss LA and John Christensen.
Was fool written mostly in Brooklyn or LA?
I wrote all the material under the influence of a particular situation and most of it was created in LA.
Does the place or the feeling of the place come through in the songs?
Maybe not the place, but the time period for sure.
The songs on fool are pretty personal and inward-looking. Did that make it difficult to find the right people to put together a band to perform them live?
I feel pretty fortunate as far as that goes. In LA I met a kick ass dude and one of my best friends named Johnny Chambers, some people call him "Moses" not me. He helped me put together a band in LA and we played some shows. When I moved back to Brooklyn I started playing drums for a band called WALTZ, and through that experience I met a whole family of amazing people, 2 of which now make up the other 2/3's of Pink Mexico.
How did you end up hooking up with Burger Records?
It kind of just happened, I was hanging with them one day and now they've released my album. Those dudes are the real shit and awesome people. Thank you dudes.
Finally, now that you’ve expanded to a full band, are there any plans to record anything with the new line-up?
We'll see.
Pink Mexico play Anchor's Bend on Saturday, September 3rd, with Psychiatric Metaphors and Holiday. Things kick off at 7pm and admission is FREE.
No comments :
Post a Comment