The Budos Band return with 'Frontier's Edge'

The Budos Band

Return with 'Frontier's Edge'
Out July 28th on Diamond West Records, listen to the EP's title track now:https://youtu.be/Jmmc1WqMgxg

Frontier’s Edge is the new EP by the fiery, energetic and genre-defying group The Budos Band.

After a two-decade run with the legendary Daptone Records, Frontier’s Edge is the first new music from the group on the new label, Diamond West Records — run by The Budos’ saxophonist Jared Tankel and guitarist Tom Brenneck.

The Budos Band’s departure from Daptone was on good terms; the split from their long-time home base was an organic result of the band’s evolution. “It’s just a natural growth,” Brenneck says, admitting: “We’re going further away from the sound of Daptone and into territory they probably wanted to stay away from.”

As a result, Frontier’s Edge finds the group hungry, passionate and primed to charge into their next epoch newfound sense autonomy within the collective. “We’re a powerhouse in the studio; we can produce ourselves,” Brenneck says proudly of a long process of self-containment. “I take the helm, but the band, they know what they want.”

As expected from The Budos Band, Frontier’s Edge resists analysis; it represents the band as they are: a contained explosion. You don’t pick apart Frontier’s Edge; you feel it all at once. “Somehow, we wrote six songs in two days,” says The Budos’ drummer, Brian Profilio. “Tom was able to take what we were doing and put it together in a cohesive manner.”

Whether this is your first rodeo with The Budos Band or you’ve been following them throughout their two-decade run, Frontier’s Edge contains their musical universe — Afrobeat, Ethiopian music, proto-metal, any number of other streams — in microcosm.

Dime the volume and behold The Budos.
US Tour Dates:
June 28 – Portland, ME – The State Theater*
June 29 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall*
June 30 – Rochester, NY – Photo City Music Hall
July 1 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag
July 2 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed*
July 3 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theater*
July 6 – Montreal, QC – Club Soda
July 7 – Quebec City, QC - Festival D’Ete De Quebec
July 8 – Chicoutimi, QC – La Noce Saguenayl
July 28 – Yuzawa, Niigata Japan – Fuji Rock Festival
August 25 – Port Townsend, WA – The Thing Festival
 
*Supporting Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade