So yesterday I was talking about connecting the dots from band to band or from band to producer, etc. I had followed Mitch Easter from producing R.E.M. to having his own band, Let’s Active.
Years later (after the Internet made dot-connecting and information-gathering a ton easier), I was tracking down Let’s Active mp3s and having a good old nostalgia session when I started wondering “what the h-e-double-c-k is that dude Mitch doing these days?”
Turned out he was still working up a storm producing, and had produced the latest Helium album, The Magic City.
Like most graduates of Alternative High, I had heard Helium, but what I read about The Magic City didn’t jibe with my experience of Helium. I read that Helium had gotten less angry and had started playing songs about dragons and outer space.
SIGN ME UP, LEON.
I consider The Magic City to be A Major Achievement. I could journey through its faerie space forest every damn day. (I probably always have been.)
Helium – Aging Astronauts from The Magic City
Bonus Elfquest (All Of My Friends In L.A. Love Me More Than You)
Helium – Leon’s Space Song
