Dark Beatles in Mini Mansions
Mini Mansions (featuring members of Queens of The Stone Age) play at Saint Rocke this Sunday, Mar. 18. Photo by Dustin Rabin Pretty much everyone loves The Beatles, except this one guy I know. He says they’re too “bubble gum pop.” In that case, he and any of his sacrilegious kind may very well prefer a Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley band called Mini Mansions. They possess a distinctly Beatle-esque pop appeal, but it’s impregnated with a darkness. There’s something a little more sinister, raw and nasty there, and new. Nonetheless, for anyone I’ve ever introduced to the music of Mini Mansions, they all agree that it sort of comes across like a late 60s era “Dark Beatles.” The band proposes that they generate a Technicolor spectrum of sound drawn from baroque, gothic, psychedelic, and cinematic realms, suggesting that if pure sound had the capability to project images on blank walls they’d be worthy projectionists. In reference to their most recent release, a self-titled LP, they claim it curtsies to the past, bows to the present, and foreshadows a progressively more abstract future. They are Tyler Parkford (keys, guitar, vocals), Zach Dawes (bass, keys, vocals), and Michael Shuman…
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