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The Arsens were created in the late of 2002 in West Lafayette, Indiana. Only months later an album,
Test Sessions, was produced. It is now arguably the greatest lo fi album of all time.
With influences from Nirvana, The Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, The Toadies and Beck, The Arsens
have a diverse quality that is hard to match to other bands. Their debut album Test Sessions is mainly
a tribute to Nirvana and Meat Puppets. However, their live show is much different. Punk and modern jazz
music that cannot be heard on Test Sessions is also played. Punk songs like House, Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes"
and The Queers' "We've Arrived on Heroin" and modern jazz like Huckleberry Hound,
influenced by Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man", are crowd favorites.

The band began with the meeting of two friends, Aaron Molden and Aaron Wright, at a
drawing class in Harrison High School. After a short thinking process, the...