For those of you unfamiliar with the band, BSMR are a Pittsburg-based sextet in love with analog musical gear, namely the Vocoder (Hint: its the thing that makes you sound like a rusty, tubed-out, auto-tuned robot).
They’ve been using the device long before rappers who can’t sing decided they should be rappers who can’t sing but use a vocoder. Using old gear with new tech, BSMR crafts repetitive, looped-out, fuzzy mashups that start with a simple hook but soon evolve into an auditory layer cake. And someone replaced the sugar in the cake with cocaine.
Sounds Like:
Somewhere between Dr. John and Dr. Octagon.
Listen:
Fun Fact: The band loves monikers, with band members referring to themselves as Tobacco, Power Pill Fist and Father Hummingbird, among others.
Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
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