Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles

The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles is an avant-garde music collective from Chicago. Aiming to exist between familiar pop rock and bizarre experimental art music, the band is uncompromising in its vision of adventurous and atypical sounds that are not immediately listener-friendly or accessible. The group combines traditional and modern instrumentation in the form of strings, woodwinds, horns and live drums, and approaches its music with the tact and structure of a classical composition--even if it may seem free-form at first blush. The word "experimental" is easily thrown around these days, but groups like the Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles help uphold the true meaning of the word with its odd, polarizing and intriguing works.