Trying to pigeonhole the music of Austin's My Education is akin to trying to stuff a pigeon into a hole: the sound is calamitous, there's movement all around, the frenzied beating of wing against wall, and somewhere something is pumping out blood. There's great beauty as well, counter pointing the seeming chaos, and flowering like a mercury tear into the emptiness inside. Vocals were never necessary to begin with, and even Phil Spector couldn't envision a wall of sound this gorgeous.

Formed in 1999 and featuring former and current members of Stars of the Lid, Ultrasound, and Cinders, the seven-piece My Education is an instrumental hybrid: part space-rock cacophony, part punk rock sonic wipeout, and part ambient bad trip

Founding members Brian Purington (guitar), Eric Gibbons (bass guitar), and Sean Seagler (drums) left 'diry, nasty' San Angelo, TX behind in 1999, relocated to Austin, TX, and promptly found themselves frightening clubgoers with their unique yet unsettling sound., and eventually recorded a two-track 7' at former 16 Deluxe snakepit/recording studio The Bubble with vocalist Joe Covington. Covington was later sacked to make room for larger mic stands, and with the addition of keyboardist Kirk Laktas, and second, taller guitarist Chris Hacksite, assumed their current line-up, usual suspects all. - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

My Education's first full-length LP/CD, 5 Popes, was recorded between May and November 2001 at the Bubble under the benighted gaze of Chris 'Frenchie' Smith. It was self-released in February of 2001. The song 'Thanksgiving' is to be featured on the up coming Rollerderby Records Compilation, The Speed by Which we Fall, in the summer of 2002.