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Bassist Chris Nadeau (of noise-punk band Blast & The Detergents) and wife/drummer Susan Dickson teamed up with guitarist James Bess (ex-Dumbwaiters, Insect Joy) to form Permanent Makeup in 2010.

The band played their first show together without ever having practiced. The venue: a doctor s office. Mostly improvised, with audience members reading infomercial ad copy in lieu of a singer, they called it a success, eventually writing new songs and taking over vocal duties themselves. Calling the underground punk/art scene their home, PM has spent the last two years cutting their teeth in true DIY fashion: playing house shows on self-booked tours of the U.S. and recording/releasing home-packaged EPs.

With tunes informed by the decades-long thread of dissonant post-post-punk and the commercial language contained within the aforementioned ad copy, people have told the band they ve identified elements in their sound as disparate as fuzzed-out garage-psych, author Phillip K. Dick, sci-fi surf, avant-electronic, and even pamphlets handed out on street corners by the schizophrenic homeless. Sure, why not? the band replies, being agreeable folk, and gets back to writing and touring.

The three of them recently realized none has a single tattoo; take away from that what you will.