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MIKA MIKO - Chronicles (Best Of) LPMika Miko were a band from Los Angeles from 2003 2010 playing a mix of danceable, post punk and late 70's style power pop and street punk. Formed by sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin (who would later form Bleached) with high school friends Michelle Suarez, Jenna Thornhill and drummer Jon Erik Edrosa. After a 7" EP in 2004 (PPM) they signed to Kill Rock Stars in 2006 with new drummer Kate Hall to release "C. Y. S. L. A. B. F." which would see them

This foregrounding of architecture and willingly experimental approach to recording is a wholly integral part of the band’s mode of existence

Much of the album was written while living in Texas where the split between her Asian self and the idea of being an American necessitated a near mountain of self-discovery to reconcile how she felt and who she was within the social backdrop of a strongly conservative environment

versus a layer of reference

” or the anthemic choruses of “Going Down Fast” are rock the way it used to be: no heavy effects

Indradat worked to strip down songs to their most compelling sections

drawing from a well of collective memory of the 1950s

Michael Reinhart’s parents’ 6’x10’ walk-in closet with a 4-track recorder and mic stands made of broom handles taped to fire extinguishers

they bare their souls while keeping their footing

The album is the first to be released by Spencer Clark's label Pacific City Discs

In the spirit of not tinkering with a formula that isn’t broken

Atkinson says that "Image Langage" is like the fake title of a fake Godard film

“Bow Low Bright Glow” is a more a communal excavation and re-presentation of buried European folk and

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