Stream BORTS MINORTS + HUG VICTIM’s Brut! HERE.
New Noise Magazine is hosting an exclusive advance stream of Brut!, the debut from bicoastal experimental pop collaboration BORTS MINORTS + HUG VICTIM, ahead of the record’s release through Nefarious Industries this Friday.
Veterans of weird and brothers from another mother, BORTS MINORTS (Arizona-based Christopher Carlone) and HUG VICTIM (NYC-based Timo Ellis of Netherlands) come together to create a blistering eight-song eargasm of insanity simply titled Brut!,
named affectionately after the 1970s aftershave cologne of the same
name. The results are an enchanting and punishing sonic assault of PCP
induced anthems that will leave the listener wondering, “... um, what
the hell just happened?”
With Brut! about
to see release, Carlone writes, “Being a friend of and huge fan of Timo
Ellis and Netherlands, my dream was to record the EP at Shame Party
Studios. I blasted through all the basic tracks in one super fun day
with Timo and left it in his musically masterful and demented hands with
the instructions to go apeshit with it. I had a few basic ideas for him
but gave him full freedom to do whatever he wanted. When he sat me down
for the final listening session, I literally fell out of my seat crying
laughing!”
Ellis adds, “BORTS MINORTS
is a scorching, freewheeling, hilarious, yet super succinct creative
manifestation of Chris’s incredible imagination, and an extremely
well-realized, ultra-exuberant fusion of free-jazz, electro-noise punk,
and sheer physical comedy. So, when he reached out to me to record, I of
course immediately said yes. In my opinion, the combination of Chris’s
insanely gleeful abandon and my own (similar) outsider sensibilities and
producer chops make this record totally unique and powerful. In the end
it’s super sharply executed, and doesn’t have a solitary ounce of fat
on it… I fucking love this record!”
Hear BORTS MINORTS + HUG VICTIM’s Brut! in its mind-warping entirety through New Noise Magazine first now at THIS LOCATION.
Brut! sees
digital release this Friday, February 25th. Find links to all digital
providers and more at Nefarious Industries where the previously issued
“Fuckball Johnson” and “Horned God (Give Me The Strength)” videos are
playing HERE.
Watch for additional videos and more to post following the release of Brut!
Born into his 63rd life in 2006, BORTS MINORTS
creator Christopher Carlone has lived in San Francisco, New York City,
and Los Angeles. With two nominations from the SF Weekly for Best
Experimental Music among additional loads of glowing press, BORTS MINORTS
and his vast arsenal of spandex jumpsuits, musicians, dancers, and
homemade instruments ecstatically blend the absolute weirdest structured
chaotic musical concepts of The Residents, with the spirit and over the
top showmanship of rock legends like David Lee Roth and Iggy Pop.
The mastermind behind HUG VICTIM
is none other than vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Timo Ellis, who
has appeared on almost one hundred albums in total over the past twenty
years. Outside of his own band Netherlands, he has recorded and toured
with such artists as Yoko Ono, Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, Joan As Police
Woman, and Spacehog, and has variously performed and collaborated with
Mark Ronson, John Zorn, The Melvins, Ween, The Lemonheads, Money Mark,
White Hills, and Gibby Haynes. Traversing the realms of rock, metal,
funk, soul, and beyond, Ellis’ diverse music is unified by a few
constants: impeccable songcraft, blazing technique, quirky
experimentalism, and sheer intensity. His solo works have been described
with phrases like, “an absolute, burning blur of a song” (CMJ),
“overridden-in-the-red propulsion” (Noisey), and “gritty, high energy...
rambunctious” (BrooklynVegan).
Coalescing their imaginative expulsions, these two artists present their collaborative album Brut!,
and while the album’s eight face-melting jams confuse the listener in
barely twelve minutes, more action transpires in that dense span than
most albums thrice as long. Carlone provides vocals, drums, keyboards,
guitar, pedals, skibass, stumptar, penny whistle, and samples, while
Ellis delivers guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, and samples. The
record was produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ellis at Shame
Party Studios in Brooklyn and completed with cover art by Erica Flannes.
Review copies of Brut! and interviews with the BORTS MINORTS + HUG VICTIM co-op are available now through dave@earsplitcompound.com.
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