Download: Hecuba “Sir”

(from the Sir EP on Manimal)

Three sung letters punctuate the dark—Y-E-S, Y-E-S, Y-E-S, Y-E-S—sort of a mind-shift lube, like those metal clips used to keep Alex DeLarge’s eyes peeled open for enlightenment. We listen in wait as that single syllable word expands and contracts upon us. What are we agreeing to, subdued by Hecuba’s soft sonic demand? After several minutes, a spotlight opens on a pair of neon-colored creatures, one pink and the other, green. Two girls sit politely, half snarl, half smile, and gently judge their surroundings with a big, hard gun under their legs. Thus we are introduced to NEW, a temporary escape into the mindspace of playwright/actress Rachel Kolar, working opposite Lauren Brown, for avant-Pete’s sake. Here, the sun rises with Hecuba, has noon tea with Rainbow Arabia and sets under Black Hole Oscillator’s sheets. In this post-everything conceptual context, using these bands as soundtrack makes the landscape or thought relevant to our humanihil sympathetic, and kinda makes you feel at-home-cozy. We pause at the intersection of fashion, the absurd, seeking meaning and/or/at least entertainment; trying to inject a little fun, a little neon, into the meat locker of zannis (those dummies hanging from the ceiling) hovering around us in gray and black, their stitches showing and their genitals possibly shoved up into their bellies. Rachel and Lauren make pretty monsters with fluorescent beehives. Will their opportunistic experiment grow vigorous and healthy? Or will the girls bitch slap each other mid-poem?
—Daiana Feuer