Band
How it started
Steve Woodward and Jason Mitchell started Complexes in 2011 as a two-piece. It was a time when music had trended almost completely away from the compelling, innovative rock bands that influenced them in their early years. But after a couple of decades of playing in bands that moved away from that era’s cerebral and cathartic approach, the band felt like something was missing from the current musical landscape. Complexes’ first record builds on what their heroes in Fugazi and Dinosaur Jr. and June of 44 and Sunny Day Real Estate had started two decades before. These legendary post-rock and proto-emo bands of the late 1990s hinted at a new era of rock music, but that promise wasn’t fulfilled before the underground became the mainstream. Complexes excavates that uncharted underground territory, carving new structural soundscapes in which rock music can flourish.
Band
Complexes
Complexes is a fuzz rock trio from Minneapolis, featuring Jason Lynn Mitchell on guitar, Steve Woodward on drums, and Bob Martin on bass. They take musical cues from post-hardcore, power pop, and math rock. For fans of Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi, June of 44, Cap'n Jazz, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Jawbox.
Members
Steve Woodward
DRUMS, VOCALS
Bob Martin
BASS, VOCALS
Jason Mitchell
GUITAR, VOCALS
Band
how it's going
Bassist Bob Martin joined the band in 2013. The new interplay between Mitchell’s low-end-heavy guitars and Martin’s “rhythm-bass” strumming and their signature triple-vocals helped Complexes further scrape away the pop edges of rock and construct the songs on their second album, I’m not joking around. I really feel weird. After releasing their third album, Communication Needs Improvement, the band went into hibernation with the rest of the world during the pandemic. They emerged in April of 2022 with a fourth album, Chaos Repeater.
