Slow Start Records to issue six-song EP as double
7-inch. “Imagine if Aimee Mann decided to pick up Adam Franklin (of
Swervedriver)’s guitar,” says
Ghettoblaster.
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BLUNDERBUSST (L-R): Jen Scaffidi, Carson Cessna, Carolyn
Gates. Photo credit: Chris Carnel.
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BLUNDERBUSST | “Monarch of
the Mountain”
“Imagine if Aimee
Mann decided to pick up Adam
Franklin (of Swervedriver)’s
guitar. Couple that with clever songwriting that digs much deeper and one will
already be able to imagine the sound.” Click to
hear “Monarch of the Mountain”
by BLUNDERBUSST at Ghettoblaster
Magazine or at the links below.
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BLUNDERBUSST
| On Tour
07/13/2019: Reno, NV @
Foxy Olive
07/24/2019: Boise, ID @
The Olympic (Jen Scaffidi solo)
07/25/2019: Ashland, OR @
Johnny B's (Jen Scaffidi solo)
07/26/2019: Seattle, WA @
Tim's Tavern (Jen Scaffidi solo)
07/28/2019: Red Bluff, CA
@ Downtown Ale House (Jen Scaffidi solo)
07/29/2019: Reno, NV @
Recycled Records
08/02/2019: Los Angeles,
CA @ Cinema Bar
08/03/2019: Oakland, CA @
Octopus Literary Salon
08/09/2019: Reno, NV @
Park Place
08/16/2019: Sacramento,
CA @ Cafe Colonial (Jen Scaffidi solo)
08/17/2019: Virginia
City, NV @ Canvas Cafe (Jen Scaffidi
solo)
09/05/2019: San
Francisco, CA @ El Rio
09/14/2019: Salem, OR @
Space Concert Club
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BLUNDERBUSST
“Monarch of the Mountain” EP
(Slow Start Records)
Aug. 9th, 2019
Track Listing:
01. James Alex Chilton
03. Two to Grow Small
04. Wicked
05. You Get One
06. In Plain Sight
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BLUNDERBUSST
| About
The 15-year career of the noisy, Reno, Nevada-based shoegaze-pop
band BLUNDERBUSST has included more
time off than on.
The group sticks to an edict of not only letting the
songs be what they want, but also when they want. Essentially, BLUNDERBUSST makes music when the time
is right, and that time has arrived again as the band, consisting of songwriter
Jen Scaffidi (vocals, guitar), Carolyn Gates (drums), and Carson Cessna (guitars/synths), returns
from a five-year hiatus with a new EP this summer, to be issued as a four-sided
double 7-inch by San Antonio-based Slow
Start Records.
“This phase of the band started as, ‘Hey guys, I wrote
a few new songs,’” Scaffidi
explains. “I wondered what it would be like to get in the room with the band
and play them. And I thought we should probably play them in front of people
before we went into the studio.”
Scaffidi continues, “Being in rooms with our friends playing
music again felt like such a gift, like a small oasis of community in an
increasingly hostile world. We felt so lucky to still be part of Reno’s
incredibly active and vibrant music scene after such a long break.”
Suddenly BLUNDERBUSST
was a band again.
“With ‘Monarch
of the Mountain,’ we wanted to make something beautiful, something that
might be more than just ‘Here’s our new EP,’ something we could give to our
friends and the community that nurtured and embraced us, the people who made us
what we are.”
The EP is the keepsake that the band intended.
“Monarch of
the Mountain” sounds like the artists
on the playlists that Scaffidi and Cessna made to inspire them during its
creation (Aimee Mann, Neko Case, Brandi Carlile) meeting the trio’s stated influences (My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Swervedriver) head on. Picture a singer‐songwriter
strumming an acoustic guitar and then breaking it over your head at the end of
the set. Scaffidi translates this
description of physical pain into cathartic, sometimes unsettlingly candid
lyrics.
“Go now, write it down, because I’ve seen the end and
it comes too soon,” she sings on “Monarch
of the Mountain,” the EP’s title track and first single, recently
premiered via Ghettoblaster Magazine,
and now streaming
everywhere.
“Monarch of
the Mountain,” the latest EP by BLUNDERBUSST arrives on Aug. 9th from Slow Start Records. Members of BLUNDERBUSST are available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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BLUNDERBUSST | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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