Walmartians - Joker of Hair EP (2009)

The Joker of Hair EP falls between This Is How It Ends and Queen Mother Space chronologically. Soundwise it also marks a bit of a transition from the lengthy experiments of This Is How It Ends and the tighter compositions of Queen Mother Space.

The title Joker of Hair comes from a sign I saw once while walking through the Ebisu area of Tokyo. There are lyrics for Joker of Hair, but I’ve yet to record them. Mainly they revolve around a malicious hair stylist and his efforts to provide uniformly poor service to patrons.

During the same walk I came across The Fairy Annex which led to the title Fairy Annex Inventory Clerk. I wrote some lyrics for Fairy Annex Inventory Clerk which detailed the day-to-day challenges of a minimum wage worker charged with keeping track of the all the fairies rented by people in a large, unnamed city. Yeah, I don’t know where all that came from exactly. Anyway, I didn’t ended up recording them.

The title The Instancy Flees Diagram is from the name of an emergency exit diagram in an office building in Beijing. I walked by it many times before one day finally reading the text.

Skylons is of course a reference to The Land of the Lost television series from the 1970s. Again, there are lyrics for this one.