{"id":1554,"date":"2019-07-10T02:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2019-07-12T07:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:58:48","slug":"experimental-pollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"Long Live the Experimental Pollen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jon Cook ca. 1994.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in 1996, fans of lo-fi music, Crain, and Louisville’s particular brand of homegrown rock might’ve been following Experimental Pollen, a short-lived Jon Cook project.\u00a0 As it looked like Crain was about to split up, that small community might’ve paid particular attention to what a possible Crain follow-up would be. Experimental Pollen had a pretty mighty presence that summer, with a crack rhythm section composed of Troy Cox (Evergreen) and Will Hancock (Four Fifty Six), but the very few<\/a>\u00a0released<\/a> recordings<\/a> never really measured up to that lineup, and the band folded as Jon got more interested in noise music and his decline<\/a> began to inexorably take hold.<\/p>\n

However, before all that, he managed to release a 7″ EP<\/a> on the one-off Gene Rick label (sporting a St. Cloud, Minnesota P.O. box for reasons that remain obscure to me). Essentially a split with New England indie rocker Mike Flood<\/a> (also obscure), I got my hands on a copy of it recently and am pleased to post the two best solid songs from it, both recorded in “that electrifying spring and summer of ’94.”\u00a0 I’ll second the electricity.<\/p>\n\n\t

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