As well as being our New Band of the Month (and total babes), Tiny Moving Parts are apparently also astrophysicists and wizard marketers.
If we were in a world where great music didn’t need to be advertised, the band’s phenomenal ‘Pleasant Living’ would fall on plenty of deserving ears. Sadly, in a world where Nicki Minaj’s arse noises are apparently hooked up to our veins by an IV drip, the boys had to get creative. Sending bobblehead versions of yourself into space could and probably should win these guys plenty of new fans. They explained:
“On August 13th from our home in Benson, MN, we sent three bobble heads replicas of ourselves into space using a 600 gram weather balloon. The 2 hour flight was captured by a GoPro camera enclosed in a styrofoam cooler alongside a GPS tracker and a stack of heat packs to help brave the -60 degree F (-15 C) temperatures. The spacecraft reached a height of over 80,000 ft (24,384 meters), capturing the Earth’s curve and the beauty of a world just beyond our grasp.
About 2 hours into its journey, the GPS stopped sending us signals. We drove all over the farmlands of Minnesota with the slim hopes of it turning up somewhere. Eventually, we gave up and lost hope. It wasn’t until October 10th, almost 2 months later, that we received a call from a farmer, our new friend Kurt, almost 50 miles away who found the pack while combing through his bean farm.”
It’s worth noting that there’s almost no way this is fake as Tiny Moving Parts are a 21st century rock band. They would probably struggle to afford a sandwich, let alone SFX and all that noise.
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