IDIOT PILOT - Strange We Should Meet Here Review

While the term maverick can’t quite be applied to this youthful duo from Washington State, Strange We Should Meet Here is nevertheless an entertaining smorgasbord of contemporary influences – that Daniel Anderson and Michael Harris a.k.a. Idiot Pilot have earned comparisons to Deftones and Radiohead is wrong, but there’s no doubting their aspirations to meet their obvious influences’ achievements....full text Back in 1997 when acts like The Prodigy and Orbital briefly grabbed mainstream attention, radio play and briefly made a dent outside of electronic music circles, every other pop-cultural pundit on the block predicted what was, essentially, the end of guitar-and-drum rock’n’roll by the end of the millennium....full text Compared to the likes of Radiohead, Deftones, Blood Brothers, Death From Above 1979 and The Mars Volta, Idiot Pilot create a style of music that's propulsive, violent and enticingly melodic. It's a startlingly original music outlook that makes their debut album 'Strange We Should Meet Here' such a compelling listen....full text