A Minor Forest

A Minor Forest was a San Francisco-based math rock band in the 1990s.[1]

The band formed after Andee Connors left his home in San Diego to start a career in music in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1992 he met bassist John Trevor Benson and guitarist Erik Hoversten, forming the band.[2] They were musically related to the Louisville scene of post rock groups like Slint and had personal connections to the San Diego scene of Three Mile Pilot and related bands. Their songs had pop music, progressive rock, and punk rock influences and featured changing time signatures, sudden dynamic changes, silent pauses, unintelligible screaming, catchy, repeating melodic passages and absurd, in-joke titles. Their slogan was "A Minor Forest Supports the Destruction of Mankind." They formed in San Francisco in 1992 and, in addition to other smaller releases, put out three albums: Flemish Altruism (1996) and Inindependence (1998)[3] on Chicago label Thrill Jockey Records,[4] and So, Were They in Some Sort of Fight? (1999), a career-spanning compilation on My Pal God records. On November 9, 2013, they played for the first time in 15 years at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Until that show, their previous show was held on November 1, 1998, at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.[5]

Members

Discography
gollark: - To increase the efficiency of the education system and encourage self-directed learning, I believe schools should lock children in individual cubicles with textbooks for 5 hours a day instead of using classrooms and teachers.
gollark: - It's important to me that women aren't forced to have children they don't want or may not be able to take care of.- which is why I support mandatory sterilization for all - children would be grown in vats and raised by the government instead.
gollark: - I support the right to privacy!- In light of governments' large-scale mass surveillance campaigns which they do not seem inclined to stop, I would support an open and transparent volunteer spying agency using open source software and hardware to gather and process data in order to act as a competitor.
gollark: These are hard...
gollark: - which is why I think all government workers should be randomly selected, similarly to jury duty

References
  1. Monk, Barnaby (5 February 2014). "In San Diego clubs Thursday–Saturday, February 6–8". San Diego Reader. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  2. "'90s math rockers A Minor Forest reformed, reissuing LPs for Record Store Day, touring (dates, streams)". Brooklyn Vegan. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  3. Terich, Jeff (4 February 2014). "A Minor Forest, Pontiak and more San Diego concerts". San Diego City Beat. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  4. Port, Ian S. (7 October 2013). "S.F. Math-Rockers A Minor Forest Will Reunite For First Show in 15 Years". SF Weekly. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  5. Levin Becker, Daniel (6 November 2013). "A Minor Forest: Show Preview". SF Weekly. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
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