Blunderbuss!
UPDATE: A big thank you to Ben Matthews for providing a link to purchase this album. To do so, just head on over to his personal website!
This has to be the ultimate surprise for me this year thus far. No, not in the “wow, this is good” kind of surprise, but more like “wow, when did these guys release another album” surprise. For those that might remember, Blunderbuss was a noise rock outfit that released a few singles and one full-length album (Conspiracy) through Homestead in the early to mid nineties. However, the band was pretty much elusive through that time and drifted off into complete obscurity. That’s the reason I was completely floored when I ran across this album, which is a completely new offering from the band. I honestly couldn’t believe it until I listened to it and indeed this is Blunderbuss and it is them playing in peak form. This is some of the best melodic noise rock I’ve heard all year or for maybe quite some time actually. Even better is that this isn’t some patched together semi reunited bullshit; this is all the original members plus the addition of another guitar player, Jeff Ellsworth (Don Caballero, Creta Bourzia).
Apparently, from what little information I have been able to gather, there was only about 200-300 of these suckers made and it comes in nothing but a black slipcase with a little insert only revealing the members names and song titles, nothing else. There is no contact information, label, or any of that jazz. So, for anyone else and myself…good luck getting one of these. I don’t want to settle for some digital copy, but unfortunately that looks as if that might be the only way to go as there isn’t crap about this on the Internet and when I do a search all I get is results to war related stuff and some English band by the same name.
Blunderbuss – Worn Windowsills [MP3]
Blunderbuss – I am a Prayer [MP3]
Anyway, this record is amazing, especially for a group that hasn’t done anything since 1995 as far as I know. To come together and lay down something this solid and it being self-released is quite a statement as to how great these guys are. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll pop out of obscurity once again sometime down the road and release something else.
This has to be the ultimate surprise for me this year thus far. No, not in the “wow, this is good” kind of surprise, but more like “wow, when did these guys release another album” surprise. For those that might remember, Blunderbuss was a noise rock outfit that released a few singles and one full-length album (Conspiracy) through Homestead in the early to mid nineties. However, the band was pretty much elusive through that time and drifted off into complete obscurity. That’s the reason I was completely floored when I ran across this album, which is a completely new offering from the band. I honestly couldn’t believe it until I listened to it and indeed this is Blunderbuss and it is them playing in peak form. This is some of the best melodic noise rock I’ve heard all year or for maybe quite some time actually. Even better is that this isn’t some patched together semi reunited bullshit; this is all the original members plus the addition of another guitar player, Jeff Ellsworth (Don Caballero, Creta Bourzia).Apparently, from what little information I have been able to gather, there was only about 200-300 of these suckers made and it comes in nothing but a black slipcase with a little insert only revealing the members names and song titles, nothing else. There is no contact information, label, or any of that jazz. So, for anyone else and myself…good luck getting one of these. I don’t want to settle for some digital copy, but unfortunately that looks as if that might be the only way to go as there isn’t crap about this on the Internet and when I do a search all I get is results to war related stuff and some English band by the same name.
Blunderbuss – Worn Windowsills [MP3]
Blunderbuss – I am a Prayer [MP3]
Anyway, this record is amazing, especially for a group that hasn’t done anything since 1995 as far as I know. To come together and lay down something this solid and it being self-released is quite a statement as to how great these guys are. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll pop out of obscurity once again sometime down the road and release something else.
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