Run Dan Run
Written by gzabriel on Sunday, 15 of June , 2008 at 6:35 pm
Sounding like Say Hi To Your Mom found a band in a bar during a cold night in Canada, or more accurately South Carolina, Run Dan Run blends a melodic drum machine/vocal combination with the force of a full band, a soft and honest voice with echoes of a 808 cowbell speaking of forgetting names with pretty synths and the slow strum of a guitar: perfect. Dan McCurry, Nick Jenkins, Ash Hopkins, and Erin McKinley prefer to describe their electric indie pop groovings like so:
Once upon a time Dan was captured by mind-manipulating aliens that planted a small microchip into his brain that transfers and channels information through verse & audio. When this chip was activated from the distant planet that these aliens watch over Dan from he began acting strangely neurotic and wrote down alien transmissions in song form. He was then met by Nick Jenkins, a cyborg & freelance musician, and they began performing recording experiments. Shortly after their experimentations, they concocted a plan to take over the world, however, they needed a foil. Using a very disproportionately large tractor beam, they pulled in Ash Hopkins from “Starzzhip Interrprizze” and passed off their plans for world domination in the form of an unsuspecting, small operations indie pop rock band. They called their superannihilation plan for all humanoids “Run Dan Run”. They conducted hypnosis/mindthought planting experiments on the general masses at shows around their project base, Charleston, SC. They found a likely specimen for synthesizing hamsters with people in a young singer, Erin McKinley. They abducted her in a giant beam of light, gave her an aluminum foil helmet and made the first hamster-human ever recorded. They called their breakthrough discovery “Basic Mechanics.” Now they’re ready to infiltrate the homes of earthyouth in an honest-to-goodness jewel-cased CD package… muhahahahaha! Muhahahahaha!
Whatever you may choose, the message is constant. Run Dan Run makes music you want to hear and contrary to the ideas you may have gotten, they will not abduct you into a mind controlled cult to further the plot of an indie pop band’s world domination. Maybe.
Run Dan Run - Your Name Escapes Me
Category: Pop, Reviews, gzabriel
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Comment by kelli
Made Friday, 20 of June , 2008 at 8:15 am
Run Dan Run is pretty awsome.
I have to agree.
Comment by blahkk
Made Sunday, 22 of June , 2008 at 1:14 pm
p.s. they changed it too “Say Hi”
