Space-rock saviors The Frontier Brothers will be taking their otherworldly sound across the United States this fall, with dates everywhere from Oklahoma to California, and more to be announced.
Born in space and raised in Texas, the Frontier Brothers synthesize an original blend of psychedelia, 60s pop and punk aesthetic, which is masterfully exemplified on their debut album, 'Space Punk Starlet'.
'Space Punk Starlet' traverses all manner of song: Bacharach-like piano-driven pop ("Take it For Love"), spastic rockers ("Ego Protection") and country-style love ballads ("Plastic Bag") - all underneath a science-fiction sheen. The album's title track could almost be a statement of purpose for the band, incorporating both a horn and string section, time signature changes and lead singer Marshall Galactic's shattered vocals in his recollection that "I searched the stars and searched the bars for my space punk starlet."
The album also contains "Everyone's a Neutron Bomb," which features unhinged guitar leads clashing against plaintive piano lines underneath the song's enigmatic lyrics, which seem to evoke the feeling of love in futuristic dystopia: "When I die, I will take you on a train/Past lovers passing by/Killing all my critics for me." The album was recorded at Wire Recording in Austin by producer Stuart Sullivan (Sublime, Meat Puppets, Okkervil River).
Live performances typically find the band decked out in their signature colorful full-body spandex suits. The Brothers' performances are known to be so manically energetic that, at a recent show, the club's water main exploded, flooding the dance floor in five inches of water. According to Galactic, the band will be touring in a "Nantex-class territorial defense star fighter (preceded X-wing)" with "off-white paint, silver wheels, fully functional headlights and Proton torpedoes."
This autumn, the spacemen cometh to a town near you - but this time the earth won't be standing still. As Galactic has divulged, "We've used space technology so the songs are literally impossible not to dance to."
The Frontier Brothers 2008 tour dates:
November 6 Good Times Bar and Saloon, El Paso, TX
November 8 Lightyear Saloon West – Chapman University, Orange, CA
November 13 The Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
Late November - West-coast dates TBA
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