Zeehas; 12 Wait

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About Zeehas; 12 Wait

Zeehas; 12 Wait was a New York City-based experimental pop duo consisting of Dylan Sparrow and Alex Simon that existed between 2001 and 2003. The band's style incorporated a number of disparate elements within each song to generally form a cohesive work of highly synthesized avant-pop. The sound is generally first compared to new wave groups of the 80s, but the songs include elements of industrial, ragtime, video game music, and countless other things that range from straight pop to totally unclassifiable. The band's live shows as a duo were known to be energetic, confrontational, fun, and occasionally chaotic. The only Zeehas; 12 Wait release was a self-released CD in 2002 entitled To The Maxxxxxxxxxxx, and is currently out of print. The disc had 18 songs, was given out at shows and distributed through the band's (now defunct) website, and was close to an hour in length. Although initially panned by many record reviewers of the day and criticized for being too obtuse, the album soon thereafter found a cult following in certain circles, eventually hitting the #1 spot on WPRB's charts and beating out several key major-label artists. However, this success was short-lived; as documented in the East Bay Express, a software glitch that year year began scrubbing entire charts as incomplete if a single entry failed to match CMJ's internal database. As a "fix," editors began filling the offending gaps with CMJ's own Certain Damage compilation CD (for which it sells tracks to labels at up to $2000 per song). After an lengthy fight with California station KALX, CMJ apologized and, for two weeks, used the placeholder "Unverified". Still, this seemed to at least in part mute the tenuous momentum that To The Maxxxxxxxxxxx had, and it eventually fell off the cultural radar. "It felt like a silencing of anything that did not fit within a pre-made mold of what we should play," DJ Jannon Stein of Princeton's WPRB was quoted as saying in a Village Voice interview, still sore that the comp appeared in her station's No. 1 spot in place Zeehas;12 Wait. After a lengthy, well-received east coast tour as a duo in early 2003, the group briefly upgraded to a 5-piece live band which had a heavier, more austere feel. This incarnation only played one show, which turned out to be their final performance; after opening for Dan Deacon at Northsix in Brooklyn, they soon after disbanded due to creative differences. The band planned a follow-up record, which had been preliminarily titled "Don't Wake Up", and material from it was performed live several times, however the recording had only reached an early stage before being aborted.

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