The Comas’ Andy Herod Explains Away His South By Southwest Experience: “SXSW. What can you say? It was a blur. I was playing with two bands. Bishop Allen and The Comas. It was an absolute blast. The only bad thing is that I was too busy to see many shows. The ones I did catch were fabulous. John Ralston, Schoolyard Heroes, Richard Swift, 1900s, all great. I’m still hungover.”
 
Recorded on the “official” first day of SXSW, The Comas session came sandwiched between Sea Wolf and an early evening session with the dopest New York band that nobody knows about yet – O’Death. This all happened on March 14th – a Wednesday. Lead singer Andy Herod had himself a rad cut-off T-shirt and somehow he reminded us of Elijah Wood in some partial, non-“Lord of the Rings” way. As he left, he told us that he’d see us when he played with Bishop Allen later in the week. We’d see him on Saturday. – Sean Moeller

First song
Red Microphones (The Comas) [2.79MB] [1509 downloads]


– original version appears on Spells
This is a song I wrote when I first moved to New York a couple of years ago. Jason C. and I recorded it in his bedroom and that version is the first song on Spells. I cannot honestly say why I chose to write lyrics like this, but I can say that it feels damn good to sometimes throw totally bizarre imagery into the context of a pop song.

Second song
Now, I'm a Spider (The Comas) [4.36MB] [1484 downloads]


– original version appears on Spells
We all love to play this song and it is the third song on Spells. Birth, death, rebirth, life cycle kind of stuff. There is comfort in shouting this song to crowds.

Third song
Come, My Sunshine (The Comas) [3.23MB] [1497 downloads]


– original version appears on Spells
 A song written about 200 years ago when I first heard Queens of the Stone Age. We dragged it out of the closet because Nicole gets to sing a bunch. It’s pretty sweet.

Fourth song
Thistle Down (The Comas) [2.78MB] [1442 downloads]


– original version appears on Spells
If you know me, you know I like the sci fi. This song is written directly about a book called Eon by Greg Bear. It is about a hollowed out, deserted asteroid built by an ancient/futuristic
civilization that shows up in Earth’s orbit one day in the near future. Explorers find that it has been divided into seven chambers, the last of which, goes on forever.