About the Author
Melanie Renae Stephenson is an amateur writer and painter out of Cincinnati, OH. Running into experimental and ambient music at a young age, she has become periodically obsessed with music as a storytelling medium. Whether lyrically or instrumentally, Melanie finds music fascinating in its ability to efficiently communicate ideas over time. Though she is largely unadventurous when it comes to genre, she was drawn to the honesty and abrasion of Rock’s sound through Emperor X’s occasional forays into the genre. Melanie believes Rock (as well as its cousin in Metal) to be uniquely effective in this regard. So Many Dynamos aligns with these expectations with their early inexperience and later complexity, creating a rough and chaotic soundscape that still manages a sense of construction and cohesion. Their lyrical work compounds this, harmonizing with the rest of the band to complete the narratives they wish to tell. Alienation, panic, death, noise. Though they may not define Rock or even Math Rock in the hearts of many, they hold a place in hers.
P.S.: That painting you’ve been seeing in the background this whole time is tilted “Heat/Humidity” :)
