Vacuum cleaners, five gallons of water running down a drain, stomping on steps, things being dropped, sweetly blown saxes, screeching six-strings, bopping bass and crashing cymbals. This is Mints, and Mints makes music. Coincidentally enough, that also happens to be the title of the six-piece’s debut record, “Make Music.” The group describes its free-form project as a “hypnotic, discordant, progressive instrumental rock outfit.” Despite being a mouthful, it is really the only accurate way to describe Mints’ aural anarchy, the controlled cacophony of composition. The group came together as a project among local music-scene veterans who had the urge to play out more but didn’t want fans to become burnt out on seeing their regular bands play every weekend, according to Jeff “JCK” Klemm. JCK on guitar and “noise,” is joined by Egan Ammerman on keyboards, Kevin Klemm banging the drums, Taylor McIntosh on alto sax, Matt Riley blowing tenor sax, and Tiernan King on bass. “The thing about being in a pro-local band is you have to carefully plan your show schedule as to not ‘oversaturate your market,’” explained JCK, adding: “Most of the time, our bands would only play out once a month in our cities. We just couldn’t handle not performing!” He went on to tell Buzzbin Magazine that he and his brother Kevin conceived the band as a group with no musical direction. In order to follow this through, the two booked a show with no formed songs and no set lists. JCK said that on the day of one of Mints’ earlier shows, he asked the two saxophone players and keyboardist to join them, and after an hour and a half of practice, the band took the stage to perform its first set, half of which was improvised. “Nobody clapped,” he said. “Most of the audience was horrified, which obviously meant that we were doing something right. It forced us to get onstage and step outside of our comfort zone in front of an audience. It was so liberating. It taught us that discord is okay. Technically, I’m not a great guitar player, but I have noise on my side.” Following that performance, the group of musicians decided to make it a regular thing and set out to write and record an album in one month, an ambitious goal set to break the mold of hemming and hawing over a song’s structure, arrangement and production, JCK said. “Just pure acceptance for the live sounds we captured.” He noted that Mints tracked the record in one week, and he mixed it down in the same amount of time, both done at his studio, Free Truman Productions. “What really interests me as a producer are albums that blow your mind while listening on headphones,” JCK said. “I mixed this record specifically for people who like to get baked and listen to music through nice headphones. I buried a bunch of weird sounds that are only audible with nice headphones or studio monitors.” I did some online research and found that “getting baked,” in modern vernacular, means to smoke marijuana cigarettes until total annihilation. Kids today! Mints will be playing with Mutts, a Chicago-based outfit, at Akron’s Annabell’s on October 21. “It practically sells itself,” JCK said of the alliteration in the bill’s line up. As one would expect from a largely improvisational band, what Mints will play is anyone’s guess. That, perhaps, goes for the members as well. “Our live sets vary, depending on how we are feeling that night,” JCK explained. “Some nights we will improvise the entire set, some nights we will play new songs, and some nights we will play obscure covers. You never know what you’re going to get at a Mints gig, and we like it that way.”