Kingdom Technology

by Tunabunny

Overview

The first song on Tunabunny's fourth album, 2014's Kingdom Technology, lets the listener know right away that things have changed for the band. The six-minute-long "Airless Spaces" is a hypnotic, repetitive track that unspools very slowly as echoing vocal harmonies flit across the churning noise erratically. It's an interesting way to start a record by a band whose former strength was the fiery intensity with which they attacked their catchy riot pop. The rest of the record is pretty odd, too. It alternates songs built on a high-energy guitar attack with those made up of avant-garde electronic noise, and mixes pulsing dance-punk with super-hooky almost-pop and agit-pop. Almost all of the record has smears of ugly noise creeping around the edges of the mix; some even feature this fuzzy, almost concrete sound as the focal point. Thanks for this approach goes to the weird sound-recording device a friend fished out of a dumpster, and some of it probably can be chalked up to Tunabunny's need to expand their sound after a long time perfecting what they had been doing. It's an urge that makes sense; no bands want to repeat themselves forever, even if the results are still good. The best parts of the album are when Tunabunny successfully incorporate new sounds into their previous format, as on the dubby "Chalked Up" or Good God Awful," or when they quit experimenting and drop the instant-classic riot pop song "Coming for You." ~ Tim Sendra

Product Details

Release Date:	03/18/2014
Label:	Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records / Hhbtm
UPC:	0616822118320
Rank:	250863

Tracks

1. Airless Spaces
2. Canaries in Mineshafts
3. Save It Up
4. Different Jobs
5. Power Breaks
6. Good God Awful
7. Tete-a-Tete
8. Coming for You
9. Not New Years
10. Empire
11. Chalked Up
12. Terminal Departure
13. Bag of Bones
14. (They Say) This Is Where Our Dreams Live

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tunabunny   Primary Artist