The Builders and the Butchers @ Neumos
June 17th, 2009
The Builders and the Butchers, Portland’s gothic folk rock ambassadors, have released their second full length album, Salvation is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic) and will be having a good ol’ fashioned CD release party at Neumos this Friday (6/19). I saw them there at the Block Party last year and was pleasantly surprised. It actually kinda knocked my block off.
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Lucky for us, in advance of this show, the band has the record streaming over at Spinner (I think they reload on Release Tuesday and stay up for a week). Go take a listen. Go on. You might like their raucous take on boot-stompin’ biblical beats; don’t worry, it’s ecclesiastical in the tragic vein of a Nick Cave and not the annoying phony-baloney of, say, Michael W. Smith <shudder>. Actually, they just like to reference the Devil and hell and salvation (see title) and angels and weariness and vampire lakes. Are vampires religion-oriented? I suppose to some people they are. If you’re not a lyrics wo/man, then stick around for the surefire intensity of bandleader Ryan Sollee and his cohorts’ unbridled performance glee. They’ll have it in spades. They feature a lead mandolin player and two drummers, for chrissakes. You guys probably know all this already, but my boss requires me to put a little effort into these “blog posts”. SORRY.
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HT: SOTS
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Postscript: did you know they’re all from Alaska? I had no idea.
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w/ Loch Lomond, The Globes
8PM Doors
$12 ADV
21+
June 18th, 2009 at 11:17 am
C-Leb said:
hey that art looks alot like a Mark Ryden work? do you know?
June 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
C-Leb said:
nope its not…
June 18th, 2009 at 11:47 am
LB said:
thank you for answering your own question.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
C-Leb said:
sorry…
June 19th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Kevin leDoux said:
I see what you mean C,
I kinda think it looks like a Garbage Pail Kid sticker.
Skinned Fin? Splayed Ray? Inside Clyde? Innard Skynnard?
Shall I go on?
June 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Johnny Rocket said:
I highly recommend this show. I just saw them last night in Portland and it was amazing! They really know how to play crowd. Although, you guys have your work cut out for you, since Sollee said, “You guys are fucking amazing. Seattle’s going to be hard pressed to beat you guys. They’ll have to bleed or something.”
June 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Kevin Ledoux said:
I’m bringing a pocket full of broken glass, 2 knives and a really pointy stick. Oh, there will be blood, and we will RULE!
June 19th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Chris Craig said:
Holy crap LB. Michael W Smith? Nice ref. You really are all encompassing. I wonder the circumstance of you actually listening to that.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
LB said:
Uh, the circumstance is a mother who (unfortunately) was a fan for a little while back when I was a kid. I should go see if those cassettes still exist and DESTROY them.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
LB said:
Oh, so it’s the musicians who are fueling this Seattle/Portland rivalry, eh? Well, that’s propaganda I WON’T be succumbing to. Sincerely.