Weird War

Weird Battle began being a supergroup from the Make-Up’s Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae, and Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty following the members’ primary projects dissolved. Originally, the music group, which also included Jessica Espeleta and Steve McCarty, was designed being a one-off task. After documenting their 2002 self-titled debut along with a monitor for the Colonel Jeffery Pumpernickel: AN IDEA Album, Hagerty continuing his solo profession as Neil Michael Hagerty, and Svenonius and Mae continued to create the Picture Creamers with guitarist Alex Minoff, previously of Six Finger Satellite television. As the Picture Creamers, the trio released 2003’s I Suck on That Feelings, but later on that yr, the band dropped a legal dispute having a collective of French graffiti performers also utilizing the name Picture Creamers. Mae, Svenonius, and Minoff after that used the Strange War moniker for his or her function, including 2004’s IF YOU CANNOT Defeat ‘Em, Bite ‘Em and 2005’s Illuminated by Light. All the group’s incarnations continuing the Make-Up’s dedication to subversive however danceable music, growing this definition to add components of Krautrock, psychedelic rock and roll and experimental jazz.