Thebrotheregg perform sunny music with surgical focus and the up beat feel of homegrown psychedelic pop nuggets. The band has been delivering their underground gems to fans who embrace the group with cult-like ownership for over 10 years. They make mountains of sound emanating bright beams of lyrical imagery and a continuous inquiry into sound and emotion, appealing to sources both earthly and otherwise.

The latest release by the group, an eponymous ep (cd & 45rpm 12” vinyl available from the band’s own Dandelion Wine imprint) features a further evolution and refinement of the bands previous sojourns into the ‘baroque rock’ (Dancing Satan and Simple Love) with some new heavier material (Blueberries, Daylight, and Elevators) reminiscent of late 80’s/early 90’’skate rock’, and a return to some of their rootsiest material (Simpleton) since 2001’s “Billy Barty’s Brains.” This new album has waltzes, run on sentence melodic lyricism, and crazy excellent musicianship, so it must be thebrotheregg, but with a new found clarity and brevity un-hinted at in their previous releases.

Thebrotheregg is the enduring brainchild of Adam Goldman who considers himself the orchestrator or perhaps coordinator of the project, keeping it alive since it’s humble beginnings in the early 1990’s. Goldman’s music both sonically and lyrically demonstrate a heavy reliance upon dreams and dreamlike states, trances, hallucinations, visions, epiphanies, ecstasies, passion, speaking in tongues, UFOs, delusions, contusions, paranoia, monsters, magic spells, drunken idiocy, love, lucid rationality, plate tectonics, inventions, technology, vitamins, pollution, the opposite of pollution, morbid obsession, stunted emotional growth and arrested development, voodoo hexes, aphrodisiacs, prophecy, serendipity, irony, insomnia, bingeing, fasting, and finally: LIVING!

Settling in Portland, Oregon in 1996, thebrotheregg took root and exploded with vast prolific offerings over the next decade. They have appeared on countless underground compilations and a wave of self-produced bizarre cassette releases. Accustomed to self-releasing their own recordings, thebrotheregg were finally “discovered” by the Bevis Frond’s Nick Saloman in 2001 who used all sorts of flowery and enthusiastic vocabulary to describe their album “Snowflake and Fingerprint Machine” as a psychedelic pop masterpiece. Soloman’s Woronzow label released “Snowflake” in England and licensed the album to Rubric Records (home of Mary Lou Lord and Gogol Bordello among others) in the states. “Snowflake and Fingerprint Machine” still remains a triumphant statement of dark psychedelic pop.

In 2005, thebrotheregg released “Aortica Mor”, a 17-song epic on Montana’s Bingo Lady Records in the spirit of prolific maximalism. Not only did this release clock in at nearly 80 minutes, but it contained a Noah’s Arc of pop ideas at every volume and in every meter.

thebrotheregg have emerged as American savant outsiders determined to achieve cult status with a voice both raw and otherworldly in attitude. Over the years, thebrotheregg have received critical praise at home and internationally for their contribution to the new wave of independent rock.links:

official thebrotheregg site

Virb profile containing numerous songs and temporary free download of the new album!