It's Still Artastic

The Styrenes are precursors to many of the precursors of the bands that you are listening to now. They have their origins in the burgeoning 70s Cleveland scene that spawned such classic bands as Pere Ubu & Dead Boys. Indicative of this incestuous family of Cleveland bands, the Styrenes were founded by The Electric Eels' Paul Marotta & Mirrors' Jamie Klimek, with an amalgam of attending musicians. With a style best described as jazzy agro-pop, the Styrenes were a bit "off," a bit too weird, even by CLE standardskind of like Syd Barret backed by Pavement.