THE PORTABLE INFINITE: BRONCHO's "Double Vanity" Now Streaming, Album Out Next Week!

6/02/2016

BRONCHO's "Double Vanity" Now Streaming, Album Out Next Week!

BRONCHO'S DOUBLE VANITY NOW STREAMING

OUT JUNE 10 ON DINE ALONE RECORDS

ON TOUR NOW

LISTEN TO DOUBLE VANITY

BRONCHO's new album Double Vanity -- out next week -- is now available to stream in advance. SPIN premiered the advance stream, calling it "perfection refracted" and stating, "The hooks are still there, buried under hairpin-bent notes and a blanket of reverb that would make anyone but the Jesus & Mary Chain blush." Double Vanity is out June 10 on Dine Alone Records and is available for pre-order here.

BRONCHO is currently on a North American headlining tour. All dates below.

TOUR DATES:

6/02: Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ
6/03: Casbah - San Diego, CA
6/04: Teragram Ballroom - Los Angeles, CA
6/05: Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
6/06: Catalyst Atrium - Santa Cruz, CA
6/07: Independent - San Francisco, CA
6/09: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
6/10: Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
6/11: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC
6/13: Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
6/14: Walnut Room - Denver, CO
6/16: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
6/17: Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL
6/18: Wicker Park Green Music Festival - Chicago, IL
6/20: Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
6/21: Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC
6/22: Great Scott - Boston, MA
6/23: Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
6/24: Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
6/25: DC9 - Washington, DC
6/26: Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
6/29: Hi Watt - Nashville, TN
6/30: Outland - Springfield, MO
8/03: Riot Room - Kansas City, MO
8/04: Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
8/05: Cosmic Charlie's - Lexington, KY
8/06: Hi Fi - Indianapolis, IN
8/07: Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
8/08: The Basement - Columbus, OH
8/09: Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
8/10: Majestic Cafe - Detroit, MI
8/11: Mohawk - Buffalo, NY

BRONCHO - DOUBLE VANITY:

Blasted grassland, the thin ribbon line of the freeway unspooling beneath wheels, skies stretched wide between mountaintop. It is dream music, foggy, atmospheric, the melodies you hear while you gazing out through fingerprint smeared windows into a constantly moving, metamorphosing landscape....

It makes sense then, that BRONCHO was born out of out a film project, its initial incarnation sparked when founder Ryan Lindsey was asked to create music "to set to an early 80s punk film." "That's all I knew about it," he remembers, "they were looking for songs that touched this era. And songs kept coming to me and turned something on inside of me artistically." Lindsey found himself in the midst of prolific run of songs and he liked the idea "of starting out there and seeing where it could go."

What's evolved from those first tracks there has been a steady run of success, critical accolades and two full-length albums: 2011's Can't Get Past the Lips and 2014's Just Enough Hip to Be Woman. And beneath it all, the music has been constantly mutating and ceaselessly experimental. From that first inception as a soundtrack in 2010, BRONCHO has taken on a life of its own. The initial inspiration is still there, but now pushing far beyond the stiff confines of score. What began as an ode to ramshackle, high-energy early punk has become something deeper, weirder, and much more nuanced. The undercurrent of early 1980s punk is still there, but The Ramones pogo has been replaced more often by a kind of Love and Rockets-inspired, honeyed, cotton-mouthed drift.

Double Vanity is Lindsey and bandmates Ben King, Nathan Price and Penny Pitchlynn steadily moving ahead, transforming the raw angst of the first record into a sound decidedly more layered and complex. Tracks like "New Karma" or "Two Step" riff off the later explorations of punk, culling up refracted images of John Hughes prom nights, love songs echoing from a boombox held high. "Jenny Loves Jenae" and "Speed Demon" strut with a 80s-meets-50s swagger, discord transformed into a jagged, frenetic pop. "Señora Borealis" is all bad boy sneer - sensual, moody, with a sly and predatory swagger. "I Know You" is simultaneously infectious and brooding, somehow both exalting and heartsick.

The result is a record that veers gleefully from BRONCHO's roots, moving from graffiti sprayed backrooms into a sleeker, plusher sound, a place bright with the polished gleam of chrome and bleached white sunlight. Close your eyes and what you feel is the raw wound pulse of adolescence; what you see behind your lids is suburban shopping mall wastelands, glazed eyes, dead grass, lips glossed in bubblegum pink. There is the burst chest thump of teenage longing, the smell of hairspray and cigarettes. There is glow of neon and the glint of streetlight rolling across hood.

Double Vanity evokes a shared nostalgia for the past and for the unknown future, as BRONCHO takes a turn off the wide freeways and into a world of intimate, intricate - but always universal - emotion.