Completely Removed

VINYL FORMAT. The LP comes with a free digital download! Medications is a band formed around the eighteen year collaboration between multi-instrumentalists Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Beauty Pill, Mary Timony Band, Smart Went Crazy) and Chad Molter (Faraquet, Mary Timony Band), and 2010 finds them with a new album titled Completely Removed. After extensive touring following the release of their dark and explosive debut full-length Your Favorite People All in One Place and the departure of drummer Andrew Becker in 2007, Ocampo and Molter began having discussions about how to continue their vision of writing songs that combine a love of '60s and '70s pop, the visceral pulse of '70s punk, and the damaged experiments of those that make music purely as art. Early on, it became clear that the songwriting, which had previously been at least partially carried out through democratic committee, would now be completely under the control of the core duo of Ocampo and Molter. The two also decided that the production/recording process itself should influence and assist the songs as they took shape. Tracking began at Devin's studio, Treehouse, as early as 2007 and by the summer of 2008 a sound was starting to emerge that, although quite different then their previous work, felt exactly right for the band's vision. Enlisting long time friend and collaborator Mark Cisneros to round out the playing duties, they spent the rest of the year carefully crafting and perfecting each song until they had an album with as many layers as the players that created it. The final product Completely Removed evokes not only the countless influences on the band (XTC, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Prefab Sprout, Fela Kuti and Ornette Coleman just to name a few), but is a pure expression of the artists at their most confident and carefree.