Members: Jay Fung, Manny Diaz , Ron Woods, Scott Oliver

"The Miss Alans hailed from Fresno, California. The band members met while attending Fresno St. Univ. in 1987. The name is derived from E.M. Forster's 1908 comic novel "A Room With a View." In that classic novella, the Miss Alans were two proper and genteel spinster sisters "who stood for good breeding, but had chosen independence." They're not the main characters in the book, yet they buzz around the storyline like hummingbirds. E.M. Forster's themes of passive aggressiveness, loneliness, undirected resentment, the pursuit of virtue and self imposed isolation, are also common to those found in the band's lyrics.

The Miss Alans' music inhabits a place between stark reality and an unseen cosmic dreamworld. The lyrics are cryptic three word lines, strung together by Scott like free form poetry, It's sub genius pop theory, delivered on a platform of ethereal dream pop. At times converging with disquieting moments of truth, that tend to sabotage the illusory happiness of the listener."

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