Q&A with Meanderthals

nik.mercer — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:05:07 -0700

Everybody’s got that springtime tipping point—the moment when you throw up your hands, grit your teeth, and beg whatever you believe in to just let it be summer already. For some, it’s waking up to the sixth consecutive cloudy morning; for others, it’s sobbing at the sight of another sub-sixty-degree day. For me, it was putting the Meanderthals’ Desire Lines on for the first time. Five seconds in and I was rushing to pull my shorts out of my closet; three songs later, I was looking up flights to the Baja Peninsula on Kayak.