- Tera Melos【 5 albums 45 lyrics 】
- Tera Melos is an American band from Sacramento, California, that incorporates many styles of rock, ambient electronics and unconventional song structures. They are currently a three-piece (formerly four), consisting of guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona, and drummer John Clardy. Tera Melos play a brand of music characterized by quickly alternating rhythmic patterns, start-stop dynamics, improvisation, two-handed tapping on the guitar, extended open-ended bridges, and the use of effect pedals and samplers. Though the band has typically eschewed the label of math rock, they are considered recent innovators of the genre.
Musical style
Tera Melos's sound is labeled as math rock, experimental rock and punk jazz, with influences from progressive rock and post-hardcore. AllMusic critic Jason Lymangrover wrote that the band melds 'the aggression of punk with the technical intricacies of prog rock,' using 'jerky shifts in time signatures and disjointed guitar noodling with a close resemblance to Don Caballero and Hella.' The band's music also features tapped guitar parts, as well as angular bass riffs and splintered spazz-jazz drumming, complemented with ambient electronics and sparse vocal lines.
Starting with Patagonian Rats in 2010, the band started to infuse pop elements and harmonic singing to their sound, 'making a shift from unconventional song structures of ambient-indebted post rock to hyper-technical guitar pop.' Their third album, X'ed Out (2013), incorporated influences from skate punk, dream pop, and proto-emo.
Members
Current
Nick Reinhart – guitar, vocals, programming (2004–present)
Nathan Latona – bass (2004–present)
John Clardy – drums (2008–present)
Former
Jeff Worms – guitar (2004–2006)
Vince Rogers – drums (2004–2008)
Discography
Studio albums
(untitled album) (2005) Springman, Re-issued (2010) Sargent House
Patagonian Rats (2010) Sargent House
X'ed Out (2013) Sargent House
Trash Generator (2017) Sargent House
Compilation albums
Drugs/Complex (2010) Sargent House
EPs
Demo (2004)
Alive (2005)
Drugs to the Dear Youth (2007) Sargent House
IDIOMS vol. I (2009) Sargent House
Zoo Weather (2011) Sargent House
Echo on the Hills of Knebworth (2011) Sargent House - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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X'ed Out
2013-04
1.Weird Circles
2.New Chlorine
3.Bite
4.Snake Lake
5.Sunburn
6.Melody Nine7.No Phase
8.Tropic Lame
9.Slimed
10.Until Lufthansa
11.Surf Nazis
12.X'ed Out and Tired (Provided) -
X'ed Out (The Remixes EP)
2013
1.Weird Circles Squared (Nick Reinhart Remix) (Provided)
2.No Phase (Zorch/Shmu Remix) (Provided)
3.Snake Lake (Busdriver Remix featuring Milo)4.Weird Circles (Fang Island/Jason Bartell Remix) (Provided)
5.Turn Every Color Dangerous (Zorch/Zac Traeger Remix) (Provided) -
Zoo Weather (EP)
2011
1.Manar The Magic
2.Kelley
3.Purple And Stripes4.Melt Bamanarnana (Melt Banana Remix) (Provided)
5.Manar The Magic (Pat Hills' Rat Trap Dub) (Provided)
6.Manar Was A Rat (Provided) -
Patagonian Rats
2010-09
1.So Occult
2.Kelly
3.The Skin Surf
4.Aped
5.Trident Tail
6.Frozen Zoo7.In Citrus Heights
8.Skywatch (Provided)
9.Party With Tina
10.Another Surf (Provided)
11.Westham United (Provided)
12.A New Uniform/Patagonia -
Trash Generator
1.System Preferences
2.Trash Generator
3.Your Friends
4.Drawing
5.Like a Dewclaw6.A Universal Gonk
7.Men's Shirt
8.Dyer Ln
9.Warpless Run
10.Don't Say I Know
【Correction of errors in the album information】