Drop me off

Just Drop Off by Burnside Project

You may remember hearing Burnside Project here on MFR a while back, and although their older material is quite good, the new stuff is even better. The band is maturing and working with fuller bodied arrangements, keeping their sharp rock-with-electronics sound intact.

Sweet vocal harmonies, guitars that jump from clean and ringing to walls of distortion, live and programmed drum tracks - its a good formula that a handful of bands are working with, but Burnside Project to a better job than almost anyone else with it, keeping the sound perfectly balanced between fresh and familiar.

The new album, The Finest Example Is You will be out October 18th, on Bar/None Records, who also released their previous album, The network, the circuits, the streams, the harmonies (and just put out MFR alumni El Ten Eleven - see post below). The album is self-produced by the band - who is Richard Jankovich, with multi-instrumentalist Gerald Hammill, and keyboardist Paul Searing - and was mixed and mastered by Paul Mahajan, who has produced for the likes of TV On The Radio and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Visit their Myspace page and their own website for more downloadable songs and videos for their songs "Cue The Pulse To Begin" and "Only Ordinary" (which I'd posted here a year ago).

Oh, also the album release party for The Finest Example Is You is scheduled for October 13, here in NYC at Rothko (in the Lower East Side, on Clinton btwn Rivington and Delancey) - the album itself will be available to buy from finer record store type establishments, as well as online at the Bar/None webstore.