The Passionistas in the San Francisco Chronicle today + exclusive download

(Michael Maloney / The Chronicle)

The Passionistas are featured in today’s Chronicle, where they talk about their new seven inch on this here label and their creative process now that they have three songwriters. If, like us, you’re somewhat baffled by this band that claims their ambition is to write mega popular songs and be famous but attempt to achieve this through deceptively simple songs — albeit, lampooning their grandmothers and pontificating on Y2K years after the fact — set next to more experimental musical ventures about “The American Whale”, then this article is a good read.

You can read the article here.

Speaking of the experimental side of The Passionistas, their seven inch may be pure pop but they’re still trying new things. Not since the Y2K video have we been this baffled by The Passionistas. We don’t know if this is Nerdcore, pro-tools masturbation, a really obvious observation, or art but we like it and you can dance to it. We give you “Life Without An Eye Pod”:

Download it! The Passionistas – Life Without an Eye Pod