This Is Adelaide

About This Is Adelaide

"Formed during the first week of the year 2000 in Lansing, Michigan, This is Adelaide play a disjointed yet catchy variety of math rock – at times reminiscent of A Minor Forest and Slint, yet uniquely their own. A typical This is Adelaide song resembles an advanced masters class in computational logic, meeting in the local pub biweekly, (d)evolving into confused and bold statements on the current health of major league baseball, punctuated by moments of genuine yet shaky insight: 'This is what I am... most likely.' This is not postmodern music (assuming for a moment that such a thing exists), but music with multiple cores — dodging between common time and odd-numbered meters, control and its opposite, lucidity and the freakout .... What with a dynamic stage presence, (literally) stopping traffic, and forced crowd sing-alongs to nonsense lyrics, they demand audience participation like your spoiled nephew demands his favorite red Tonka truck." – from This Is Adelaide's Web site.