MisShapes Book Will Make You Lose Respect For Seventy-Five Percent Of Your Favorite Musicians

The Misshapes Announce Book (September 4, MTV Press) and Embark On Summer Tour…

[MisShapes has] assembled this collection of portraits, edited by Misshapes member Geordon Nicol, as a document of their unique world.

The portraits include cutting edge musicians, celebrities, artists, and designers, some from different generations, alongside the youth of down town New York. Madonna, Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe, Axl Rose, Kelis, Peaches, Hedi Slimane, Michel Gondry, Nan Goldin, Sienna Miller, Chloe Sevigny, Bloc Party, My Chemical Romance and many others are included. With each subject posed amidst the downtown scene’s dense and riotous environment. The contributing photographers also include some of the art, fashion and rock world’s biggest stars like Karl Lagerfeld, Ryan McGinley, and Nick Zinner.

To give the MisShapers credit, they are wise enough to realize that their followers wouldn’t want a book overloaded with burdensome ephemera as “words” or “ideas” or other such uptight thinking-person’s stuff. And while it saddens us that so many artists fell into their trap (surely, Kelis is three levels of cool above their station),at least they didn’t get their clubby, clammy little hands on Jarvis.