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About Me

Birds.Fled.From.Me and Maxwell Lewis? met in a cafe. Make up the rest of the story and spread it all over the internet. And maybe even in real life if that counts anymore.
The two see each other probably five times a year if that, so the rate of their musical production as a collaboration is pretty low. Which may explain why their tracks is so hot when they eventually gets cooked. Ah.
Anyway, album's out on March 15. Self-released. Maxwell Lewis? and his friend from his group Virgins are co-founders of the record label Minus the Masses, and it's just getting started, and is unconventional, so until the store is up and running on that website, the only place to get the album will be by DIRECTLY MESSAGING US VIA THIS MYSPACE PAGE. Also, Fifty percent of album profits will go directly to The Santa Barbara Food Bank , so if any of you and/or your fashionably caring, activist friends are turned on by that, talk, talk, t-talk about it.
If you're sorta borderline about buying the album, we've got 30 second clips of all the tracks on the Minus the Masses website. To hear those, go here .
Bloggers, journalists and directors have been known to include TDFP into their lives from time to time. Visit the links below if that fancies your tickle:
- "Speed of Dark" blog
- A tremendously psychedelic music video for our song "Why Did You Happen"
- Splendid PolyPost article
OK so the whole world isn't talking about us. Whatever. Who needs that. The world. Too big. Anyways, if you want to interview us, tickle us, book us for shows, or buy the album, message us via here or you can contact us individually:
[email protected] for max
[email protected] for rachel
And below is some other stuff. Enjoy.

"How Do Some Trees Look Like Lightning Bolts?" Music Video


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Inspired by "How Do Some Trees" and directed by the young, attractive, talented Oregonian Mihae Jung . Mind you this film was aired on the IFC, which is the Independent Film Channel if you didn't know. (Exciting as heck, we're aware.)

Birds.Fled.From.Me "When You're Falling" Music Video


Directed by Austin R. Hartman of Santa Cruz, California.
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Music:

Member Since: 9/20/2006
Band Website: minusthemasses.com
Band Members: birds.fled.from.me and Maxwell Lewis?
Influences: Bjork, Mars Volta, John Frusciante, The Cranberries, Feist, Portishead, Cat Power, Gangster Rap and methane gas as a product of soy.
Sounds Like: "Too Dark for a Picture’s sound is reverb-heavy with an eerie element of depth. The guitar tones are tweaked with numerous effects that add a level of organic imperfection to Golding’s precision playing. The piano tones range from warm and rounded to harsh and vibrant, depending on the mood of the song, and accentuate Williams’s stupendous vocal range." - Cal Poly Post
Record Label: Minus the Masses
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Buy the album

Finally!The album is $11 plus shipping, and so we’ve worked out the shipping in the following way:USA: +$3Canada and Mexico: +$4Anywhere else: +$7The payment should go to [email protected]. If t...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:21:00 PST

Live Recordings!

Hello there, folks. I've finally gotten around to adding a live section to minusthemasses.com. If you haven't been there yet, it's a neat little web site. The only live recording we have UP at the mom...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:03:00 PST

Tracklisting (Your Album Title Here: "______")

1 Do Not Fear The Dark (4:52)2 Friendly (2:32)3 Why Did You Happen (3:45)4 Last Words (3:04)5 Sagittarius A (3:08)6 So Kind (Dark) (3:40)7 How Do Some Trees (3:07)8 Raincloud (3:34)9 Slow Heart (3:55)...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:39:00 PST

we would love to tour

hey there cool cats, we are currently looking to book ourselves up and down the west coast come this february sooooo, if you're a house, a venue or a cafe etc please contact us! we're hoping to take t...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:55:00 PST

IFC Showing Times

Although sensational, it worked. Didn't it.The HOW DO SOME TREES LOOK LIKE LIGHTNING BOLTS music video will be aired on the IFC at the following times on the following days.EASTERN TIME Thu 10/04/07...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:36:00 PST

How Do Some Trees on the IFC!

Our friend Mihae Jung directed and coordinated an awesome music video of for our song "How Do Some Trees Look Like Lightning Bolts?" a while ago, and the IFC wants to play it on live television in Oct...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:28:00 PST

Review: Alt-Gamma

Review by Alt-Gamma"Think: Portishead on prozac...Cat Power with drum and bass...Fiona Apple with a California glow. Meanwhile, I'm hoping for the happy ending to this story. Listen to these songs, an...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:05:00 PST

Review: Scattermish

Review by Scattermish"The first song I heard, and is still my favorite, was How Do Some Trees. It kinda reminded me a lot of the Coco Rosie kinda sound which I'm all too fond, but with their own nice ...
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:03:00 PST

Review: The Puro Ka indie! Collective

A review by the Puro Ka indie! Collective"They are Too Dark for a Picture. We can't even begin to describe how heartfelt and amazing their music is. Everybody! We order you to go listen to these two.....
Posted by Too Dark for a Picture on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:01:00 PST