iji – eulogy deer

Pronounced “eehhee” are a band straight outta Phoenix, Arizona. Crazy mothafucka named Zack Burba is the only permanant member of iji. He pretty much writes all the songs and plays most of the instruments on all the records, and he looks a lot like Mark Ibold from Pavement (hawt) but that’s just my opinion so whatevs. Other members of the band also include Brit May whom as Zach says is closest thing to a second full time member. She plays keys and is the official female vocalist. I love her vocals btw. They are just the sweetest touch to the songs. Lovely. Carrying on. Other members also include:  Kevin Steinhauser (Math The Band), Justine Mainville (Math The Band), Elliot Maldanado (Drew Danburry,, Sea Sea Rider, Belda Beast), Robby Fronzo (Paul Fowler’s Steller Nursery), Nick Shively (Balloons is Fun?, band artist)[I totally cut and pasted that ^.^] Anyhow…

I was introduced to iji’s music via Claude from Pop Song Romance who runs a video zine on myspace (just follow the link!)and he also ran the Hellapop festival a couple weeks back (That I regreftully oh so regretfully did not attend, and yes I am ashamed). He said “You should go, your gonna love iji” So not being able to go I checked out their myspace and now I am hooked. All songs playing on their myspace are downloadable and you can purchase all their albums right there off their myspace! yay! They’ve done 5 tours playing in almost every state and might be playing in a venue near you! Zach says they like to play all age venues like art galleries and diy spaces. That sounds pretty sweet. Also, if you mosey on down to Lost Sound Tapes, you can purchase iji’s soup/salad cassette, so bust out your old walkman and start ordering! Now enjoy the songs I picked to post and I’ve also added the popsongromance video because I love it 😐 Commence enjoyment. OH and before I forget here are some tour dates.

 

Iji – Eulogy Deer

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Iji – Tiny Moth

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written by emelia ( emelia@weheartmusic.com )