Completely Removed

the vinyl comes with a free download. a fine album of catchy thinking-man's post-hardcore guitar pop from dc trio medications, favourably compared in the us music press to the likes of shudder to think, king crimson, xtc, pinback and q and not u. devin ocampo and chad molter have been musical partners, swapping instruments and bands, since their high school days in los angeles. both eventually migrated east to washington, dc where they formed the highly influential faraquet in the late 1990s and were again reunited when they formed medications in 2003. the recording of the new medications album, 'completely removed', documents a new phase for the band with chad and devin covering all the writing and most of the instrumental duites following the departure of drummer andrew becker. happily both are accomplished multi-instrumantalists and are joined live and in the studio by longtime friend and musical swingman mark cisneros to flesh out the arrangements. not surprisingly 'completely removed' represents a bit of a departure from the band's signature off kilter rockers. this is not to say they have lost their edge. in fact, the new materail dives headlong into new musical territory with thrilling results.