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Sex mex
“But everything I've ever done has just been bits and pieces of God knows how many people. I just take the stuff that I like from anything I listen to. And then if you take from enough things at some point, people just recognize it as its own thing. Cause it's impossible for people to know everything that you've ever listened to and taken inspiration from.”
Read Above: When Sex Mex (Clark Gray) takes the stage, his act is somewhat unassuming. How loud, how encompassing, could one man sitting behind a drum set with amps on either side truly get? But once the retro synth lines start bleeding through the venue, once Clark’s saturated vocals start filling the atmosphere, interspersed with the near-deafening clash of his breakneck rhythms, you start to get it.
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