The Terrordactyls

The Terrordactyls duo -- Michael Cadiz and Tyrel Stendahl -- live on opposite coasts, Cadiz in Seattle and Stendahl in Brooklyn. The tracks were put together via Internet correspondence, but the music on their eponymous debut has the live, playful feel of two friends collaborating in a funky living room for the enjoyment of their friends. If there is such a thing a freak folk, this is it. Cadiz was born December 30, 1983, in Columbia, Maryland, an unremarkable suburb of Baltimore. He remembers sitting in his grandparents' basement at the piano, holding down the sustain pedal ...