Noisy shoegaze pop trio drops “their best material to
date. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take another five years to hear more,” says
Pure Grain Audio.
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BLUNDERBUSST (L-R): Jen
Scaffidi, Carson Cessna, Carolyn Gates. Photo credit: Chris
Carnel.
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BLUNDERBUSST | Live
* = Jen Scaffidi solo, w/ The
March Divide
09/05/2019: San
Francisco, CA @ El Rio
09/06/2019: Davis, CA @
Armadillo Music
09/12/2019: Reno, NV @
Dead Ringer Analog Bar
09/13/2019: Medford, OR @
Johnny B’s
09/14/2019: Salem, OR @
Space Concert Club
09/15/2019: Portland, OR
@ Hawthorne Hideaway
09/20/2019: Nevada City,
CA @ Miners Foundry Cultural Center
09/27/2019: Reno, NV @
Holland
10/14/2019: Albuquerque,
NM @ Red Velvet Underground (Jen Scaffidi
solo)
10/16/2019: Norman, OK @
Red Brick Bar*
10/17/2019: Wichita, KS @
Kirby's Beer Store*
10/18/2019: Lawrence, KS
@ Gaslight Gardens*
10/19/2019: Kansas City, MO
@ KC House*
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BLUNDERBUSST
“Monarch of the Mountain” EP
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
01. James Alex Chilton
02. Monarch of the Mountain (STREAM
| MP3)
03. Two to Grow Small
04. Wicked (STREAM | MP3)
05. You Get One
06. In Plain Sight
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BLUNDERBUSST | In The Press
BLUNDERBUSST | “James Alex
Chilton”
“Their best material to date. Let’s just hope it
doesn’t take another five years to hear more from this refreshingly unique
band,” says Pure
Grain Audio about James Alex Chilton by BLUNDERBUSST. Click
to hear it now.
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BLUNDERBUSST | “Wicked”
“Ruminative, burgeoning, but airy. Floating synths
expansion, winding guitar lines, a pronounced drum beat, and rich, bittersweet
vocals.” The Big
Takeover weighs in on “Wicked,”
the latest single from BLUNDERBUSST
and the upcoming “Monarch of the
Mountain” EP. Listen here.
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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.
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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, 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 is out now 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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