I met Eric over three years ago, and I think it took me about another year to find out that he had a band (cause he's modest like that), and when I listened to the music on his myspace page: I loved it. I really loved it.

But I wanted to make sure my opinion wasn't biased just because it was "Eric", so I wandered out into the living room where Amanda was hanging out on the couch, I had her put put on the headphones and hit play on my iPod. She started dancing around (as much as a person can while sitting in a ball on the couch), she said something like, "I like this, who is it?". I replied "Eric", and she pulled an earbud out to hear me, and I said it again, "Eric".

"Eric who?"

"Eric, Eric... our Eric..."

"What!!!!? Really?"

"Yea, I know."

"Oh wow, oh wow, Eric..."

The conversation went on like this - I played about 4 different songs for her, and she was as hooked as I was. That was my first experience with 'A Faulty Chromosome'. Since then, Eric has been working on the band's first CD (along with Mike and Matt, the other two members of the band), they've played a few dozen shows around LA, and six months ago they took a road trip up to Portland to record with the guy from Rocketship.

Since then, Eric has been mixing the tracks in his little home studio, a few days ago he announced he was expecting a large box of their first CD, titled 'as an ex-anorexic's six sicks exit', to arrive at his door very soon! And it's been well worth the wait - you can listen to the songs off their album here. It's crazy to me to hear how they've changed over the last few years, from the first demos he had on myspace to now.


I'm very excited about something Eric mentioned on their blog, here's a few cut & pasted parts:

they will be cheap, because: i don't like capitalism / i want everyone to be able to afford them / this isn't a get-rich-quick scheme...

there are 10 songs. (half of which, you've probably never heard... the other half, you may have heard super lo-fi versions of)

those songs will last 46 minutes. the liner notes have lyrics and scribbles (no pictures though, we are ugly).

ill probably end up posting all the mp3s soon enough. i don't care if you burn/rip/share (in fact, please do!).

I love that Eric is all about, above all, getting their music out there for people to listen to - I'm hoping I can persuade him to set up a Radiohead'ish package where people can pay anything they want to download their entire album, complete with album artwork and lyrics. I need to figure out how that works.

But please at least follow this link to their free songs, just crank it up while you work on other things, I'm sure I'll post again when he released the actual mp3 files for download, and when I get my first glimpse at the CD. And feel free to give a congrats on their myspace page - it's taken a long, long time for them to get to this point.