Budos Band kicks off post-Daptone era with Morricone-esque "Frontier's Edge"

The Budos Band takes a sharp turn into spaghetti western territory with the Frontier's Edge EP out July 28th via Diamond West. 

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After a two-decade run with Daptone Records, Frontier’s Edge is the first new music from the group on the new label, Diamond West Records — run by The Budos’ saxophonist Jared Tankel and guitarist Tom Brenneck. The Budos Band’s departure from Daptone was on good terms; the split from their long-time home base was an organic result of the band’s evolution.

“It’s just a natural growth,” says Brenneck. “We’re going further away from the sound of Daptone and into territory they probably wanted to stay away from. We’re a powerhouse in the studio; we can produce ourselves. I take the helm, but the band, they know what they want.”

As expected from The Budos Band, Frontier’s Edge resists analysis; it represents the band as they are: a contained explosion. You don’t pick apart Frontier’s Edge; you feel it all at once.

“Somehow, we wrote six songs in two days,” says The Budos’ drummer, Brian Profilio. “Tom was able to take what we were doing and put it together in a cohesive manner.”

Whether this is your first rodeo with The Budos Band or you’ve been following them throughout their two-decade run, Frontier’s Edge contains their musical universe — Afrobeat, Ethiopian music, proto-metal, any number of other streams — in microcosm.

You can pre-order a copy of The Budos Band's forthcoming Frontier's Edge EP right here.  Listen to the Morricone-esque title track below. Catch The Budos Band live at Club Soda in Montreal on July 6th since no Toronto date has been announced for their current North American jaunt – see the tour schedule below.

The Budos Band on tour

June 28 – Portland, ME – The State Theater*

June 29 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall*

June 30 – Rochester, NY – Photo City Music Hall

July 1 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag

July 2 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed*

July 3 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theater*

July 6 – Montreal, QC – Club Soda

July 7 – Quebec City, QC - Festival D’Ete De Quebec

July 8 – Chicoutimi, QC – La Noce Saguenayl

July 28 – Yuzawa, Niigata Japan – Fuji Rock Festival

August 25 – Port Townsend, WA – The Thing Festival

*Supporting Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

Watch The Budos Band & Sugarman 3 live at The Apollo

See the Budos Band rip through "The Sticks" followed by The Sugarman 3 doing "Witch's Boogaloo" below. 

The Daptone Super Soul Revue: Live at The Apollo 3LP is available right here. 

The Budos Band ready fifth album "V" for April release

Staten Island's finest could be getting even heavier with their cleverly named "V" album due April 12.  

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As menacing and unhinged as ever, the pride of Staten Island is back with their fifth full-length album, titled simply "V" (out April 12 on Daptone). Raw and absent of the modern technological trappings, the Budos boys pick up where they left off with 2014’s Burnt Offering, and finds the Budos expanding on the brooding, fuzz-fueled riffs, whilst harkening back to the Ethiopian inspired rhythms and percussive proclivity that put Budos Band on the map.

“Old Engine Oil,” a rocker at heart, kicks things into gear and delivers a high-octane burst of Budos mayhem. “The Enchanter” serves up a classic dose of upbeat afro-soul, drenched in a venomous assault of wall-melting proportions that leads you to the “Spider Web,” a rumbling ode to the Cowbell Colossus whose punctuated horn stabs take you on an untamed ride to the dark side of the spoon. The side closes with “Peak of Eternal Night,” whose odd time signature and haunting horns transport the listener to the peak of a menacing otherworldly landscape that’s further explored in the final track “Ghost Talk” – a guitar driven groover that gives way to an organ-washed space ritual beneath sun-summoning trumpet blasts.

Side Two opens with “Arcane Rambler,” an interstellar ramble across space and time that leaves the listener in cosmic purgatory. “Maelstrom,” released as a single shortly after the release of “Burnt Offering,” boasts waves of furious sonic power that batter the listener via a maw of snarling sea-foam bubbling with the power of the Budos. Soon darkness falls as “The Veil of Shadows” is draped across the land – in this realm of twilight one quickly loses their way, only to find themselves at a dusk-to-dawn pyre of budonian proportions.

“Rumble from the Void” then pulls you into a percussive black hole of formless beat-worship. There are no horns to help you here, just the tentacles of rhythm that tirelessly pull you back into the void. “Valley of the Damned” closes the record, it’s twisting groove coupled with hypnotic drones of synth and horns transports you to a place of little hope and even less reason. Pre-order V directly from Daptone right here. Listen to "Old Engine Oil" below.

Hear the Budos Band live on Soundcheck

The Burnt Offering album is out on Daptone. Listen to the Budos Band on WNYC's Soundcheck below.

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