The Y Axes' Space Odyssey: From SF State to the Stars

Friday, August 31, 2018

SF WEEKLY -- Belchere met Nelson as a freshman studying Creative Writing at San Francisco State — “One of my first memories of him is playing Dance Dance Revolution with a couple of friends at a friend’s birthday party,” Belchere recalls — although they didn’t begin writing music together until after she’d graduated.

She moved to the Bay to attend SFSU, where she started writing a sci-fi novel for a senior class. She had been writing lyrics “with nowhere to put them” since she was 10, but now she had a sci-fi fixation to play around with — and a potential band.

“It was very mid-recession, lost-generation vibes,” she says.

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