Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Neckbolt (w/ members of Exhalants, Power Pyramid, Mom Jeans) share first track from upcoming debut LP & VHS video

 

Neckbolt are truly onto something special... Making noise rock in their own way, deranged and slurred, loud and abrasive, but colorful and a bit psychedelic.” — Post-Trash



Austin, TX band Neckbolt share the first track from their forthcoming debut album Midwestern Drawl today via Post-Trash. Hear/share "Jawline" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)


The name Neckbolt might evoke images of Frankenstein’s monster’s appendages, or it might suggest a critical piece of guitar hardware. And, both are very fitting for the music of Neckbolt: a freakish hodgepodge of musical body parts rendered in nightmarish form, while also still reminiscent of rock’n’roll canon at its heart. 


This outsider noise-rock project from Austin, TX requires close listening to parse out the informed musicianship that binds the skewed and screeching elements together. Neckbolt’s unrelenting twang, invasive visual and lyrical concepts, and uncharted sonic challenges to the experimental and noise rock genres are reminiscent of the early Skin Graft label’s pugilistic skronk, while also hinting at the subsumed melodies within recent Flaming Lips noise outings. 


Neckbolt was formed in 2020 by multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Krause and vocalist James Roo after Krause had relocated from Colorado. All instruments on the bannd’s debut album Midwestern Drawl were recorded and performed by Krause during 2020 and 2021, with Roo providing vocals, lyrics, and artwork. With the 11-song album’s completion, the duo opted to expand the lineup in order to play live. Enter Bill Indelicato from Austin’s noise-rock powerhouse Exhalants, along with Kilyn Massey and Brent Hodge from OKC’s shoegaze masters Power Pyramid to complete the lineup. 


The band then shot Neckbolt Live! at the Museum of Human Achievement, the forthcoming live performance companion video to be released on VHS & online. The group not only performed in the live band, but members also tracked, edited, filmed, and mixed the VHS release. This was all done in a six hour window in an intensely hot room without air conditioning on a particularly sweltering Texan summer day. To say this was a challenge would be a gross understatement. You can probably hear the sweat.


Midwestern Drawl will be available for download and on vinyl and cassette on November 5th, 2021 via Bandcamp and distributor Digital Hotdogs. Neckbolt Live! at the Museum of Human Achievement will be available the same day on VHS and online. Preorders are available here: neckbolt.xyz






Artist: Neckbolt

Album: Midwestern Drawl

Record label: Spider Dispatch Unit

Release Date: November 5th, 2021


01. The Saddle

02. Jawline

03. Black Stars Over…

04. House on the Borderland

05. The Lighted Chamber

06. Half-Eaten

07. Sandwich

08. …Over The Lake

09. Unlighted Chambers

10. Wild Streams of Violet Midnight

11. Diver’s Sorts










On the Web:

neckbolt.xyz

neckbolt.bandcamp.com

INSTAGRAM: @neckbolt.xyz




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