BUÑUEL SHARES NEW TRACK “AMERICAN STEEL”
FEATURING DUANE DENISON OF the JESUS LIZARD
APPEARING ON THEIR FOURTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM MANSUETUDE
THE PHYSICAL STREET DATE IS NOW 15TH NOV WHILST DIGITAL ARRIVES THIS FRIDAY 25TH OCT VIA SKiN GRAFT & OVERDRIVE
Today, Buñuel shares the anthemic track “American Steel” featuring Duane Denison of the Jesus Lizard, The Dension Kimball Trio and Tomahawk who comments, “Eugene Robinson’s vocals have the effect of listening to a desperately flailing drowning man, and my guitar serves as a malfunctioning floatation device–it never quite makes it long enough to provide actual safety.”
Buñuel’s singer and lyricist, Eugene S. Robinson is nothing if a documentarian of a certain kind of power madness. Here best exemplified by a song that pays tribute to one of the single things that most enlarged American coffers, while at the same time drawing the most and worst kind of blood. Tanks, big bore hemis, assault weapons and the Harley’s they rode in on. Fiction? Not here they’re not.
Taken from their album Mansuetude, a co-release between SKiN GRAFT and OVERDRIVE, arriving digitally this Friday, and with physicals now following on 15th November.
Also highlighted today is a retail exclusive “Primeval Green” coloured vinyl variant edition, which will only be available from participating retailers. The “Primeval Green” edition joins the general release “Hard Smoked” coloured vinyl offering. Both variations will be packaged inside a gatefold vinyl sleeve, include a poster-lyric sheet, a wraparound “Footlong” Obi and are topped off by side four’s etched vinyl disc. Mansuetude will also be available on CD and cassette.
The band’s North American tour is being strategically rescheduled to the Spring of 2025, and for their European tour, the band has announced that they are joining the eclectic roster of El Borracho bookings, which includes the likes of SKiN GRAFT Records’ label mates Hyper Gal (on tour now). EU dates in support of Mansuetude will be announced very soon.
Buñuel boasts the singular vocals and razor sharp lyrics of Eugene S. Robinson (ex-Oxbow) and a powerhouse Italian trio comprised of guitarist Xabier Iriondo (Afterhours, A Short Apnea), bassist Andrea Lombardini (The Framers) and drummer Franz Valente (Il Teatro Degli Orrori). Mansuetude was produced by Timo Ellis, and features guests including Jacob Bannon (lead singer of Converge), guitarist Duane Denison (the Jesus Lizard, Tomahawk,The Denison Kimball Trio), vocalist Megan Osztrosits (Couch Slut), cellist Andrea Beninati and David Binney on alto saxophone and vocals.
The title, Mansuetude – meaning “meekness” or “gentleness” – might seem like a juxtaposition when listening to the record that is, in Eugene’s words, “extreme but articulate”, however the record aims to convey a balancing of different forces and shades of being which make up the human experience. Throughout Mansuetude, Buñuel take every given opportunity to stretch out their musical tendrils towards discomfort, surrealism, and the deconstruction of tradition, as they reach absolute abandon. They go well beyond the realm of noise rock, encompassing many moods from post-hardcore to avant-noise, hard-blues to post-industrial, symphonic to trash metal and even free-jazz.
Drummer Franz comments that “Buñuel is a name that embodies a certain cultural and literary reference, which evokes an entire world. Like his films, our Buñuel is surrealism. We take the listeners into a place that’s suspended between dream and reality.”
“What we’re doing with Buñuel is to carve out a very specific glimpse… partly into hearts of darkness, but more specifically into the depth of our secrets,” says Eugene. “Secrets we keep from each other, ourselves and whatever futures we’ve imagined for ourselves. We are ultimately trying to communicate something direct and deadly about the human condition.”
Buñuel makes music for those of us willing to take a closer, unflinching look at the depths of human instinct, and on Mansuetude the band extend their reach farther than before, creating an album that is akin to a powerful impulse, or perhaps even an exorcism.
Mansuetude is a double album with three sides. A balancing act performed for and by the unbalanced.
MANSUETUDE TRACK LISTING:
01 Who Missed Me
02 Drug Burn
03 Class
04 Movement No. 201
05 Bleat (with Jacob Bannon of Converge)
06 A Killing On The Beach
07 Leather Bar
08 High.Speed.Chase.
09 American Steel (with Duane Dension of the Jesus Lizard)
10 Fixer (with Megan Osztrosits of Couch Slut)
11 Trash
12 Pimp
13 A Room In Berlin
REVISIT “FIXER” BELOW
“It’s 13 tracks run the gamut of noise rock from fizzing post-punk (“A Killing On The Beach”) to operatic nihilism (“Pimp”), embodying the avant garde chaos and twisted sexuality the defines the work of both Robinson and the group’s surrealist namesake…As ever, Robinson is a compelling, seductive ringleader of this runaway music, effortlessly setting the tone and then twisting it on its axis two, three and more times in each song.”
– THE WIRE
“What if Nine Inch Nails loved the Butthole Surfers as much as they did Ministry?”
– METAL HAMMER
“this is how to marry terror with timing… a band with live electricity running through their collective veins.”
– GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE