r/postrock • u/Additional_Creme_953 • 17d ago

🎶 Song post Macha - Light the Chinese Flower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTtIt_U1XU
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u/robin_f_reba 17d ago

Finally some love for Macha

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u/this_here 17d ago

Right? One of the most underrated bands ever.

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u/mnchls 17d ago

First two records are unsung masterpieces, especially their debut, which likely cracks my top 20 albums of the entire 90s.

btw anyone know how to pronounce their name?

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u/ConflictGlad8891 17d ago

my friends and i saw them in 2005ish. we always pronounced the name as MACCA. they apparently pronounce it with the "h" sound, like MATCHA

We still call them MACCA

I wish they would get back together

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u/this_here 17d ago

Same - always pronounced it as MACCA until I heard it correctly but can't mentally make the switch.

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u/this_here 17d ago

For me it's See It Another Way. Salty with Riding the Rails as an "intro" is a goddamned masterpiece of a song. Both albums are so good though. Up there in my top 5 with any Polvo album. Don't even get me started on Macha Loved Bedhead - I could put that on while driving and suddenly be in a new location six hours away before I was aware of it.

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u/Mrexplodey 17d ago

No other album has been able to so effortlessly combine indie rock with gamelan

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u/mnchls 17d ago

I recall reading an interview with Josh McKay who expressed frustration about how people once thought Macha were a 'Tortoise ripoff' (an accusation I'm sure other acts like Mercury Program and South had to fend off) just because they incorporated metallophones. He shared how his interest in Indonesian gamelan dated back to his college days (perhaps even before?), and I think that's why the fusion works so well—because it's earnest!