School Boy Humor was a three-piece experimental rock band with Matthew "Doc" Dunn on guitar and vocals, James "Jamie" Leonard on bass and vocals, and Chad Van Veen on drums. They released five records between 1997 and 2009, starting with the EP "Perfect Cliché" and ending with the LP "Fortress."
Their 2003 album "11/9/02" became their most notable work, with the title track stretching to eleven minutes. The record came out not long after the September 11th attacks, and its themes touched on loss and grief. Other songs in their catalog include "Hey Miss Wright!" and "7 Minutes In Heaven."
The band's music leaned into complex rhythms and dissonant harmonies, which some listeners found challenging. They operated in that space between math rock and more ambient, avant-garde sounds, and they never seemed particularly interested in making things easy for an audience. Their last album came out in 2009.
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