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School for Robots
12+ albums
experimentalboston
about
School For Robots is an evolving and eclectic alternative rock collective led by Curtis Killian and featuring some of Boston’s finest talents performing a vast array of genre-spanning material. What started out as a forced dance ritual to the eponymous 1968 children's song by Canadian electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack quickly became a fitting moniker for a series of DIY bedroom recordings Killian began creating in 2004. Through obsessive overdubbing and crude sonic experimentation, never-ending creative flow and unrestrained songwriting, Killian (a guitarist/vocalist who has been performing music professionally since age 12) garnered enough interest from like-minded individuals to form that bastion of teenage suburban desire and rebellion that has persisted for more than half a century: a genuine American rock and roll band. Heavily influenced by the bizarre (Frank Zappa, Tom Ze), the funky (Stevie Wonder, Prince) the tuneful (Paul McCartney, the Kinks) and the heavy (Tool, Nine Inch Nails), the resultant adventure through Killian’s brain is as varied as it is unexpected, frequently drawing comparisons to eclectic alternative/experimental rockers like Ween and Beck, to more hard-edged fare like Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters. Whatever comparisons drawn, the music remains fiercely original and unfettered in its aspirations, be they bizarre, melodic, or melodically bizarre. Current members of School for Robots’ live lineup include Clinton Degan on guitar/vocals
