Tune in on Monday, August 18th at 7pm to hear Bartleby hang out with one of Oakland’s most outlandish bands, Gumby’s Junk, to discuss the trio’s upcoming record release show at the Great American Music Hall in SF on August 29th and their brand new album, Business & Pleasure.
By assembling classical-inspired circus riffs, rhythmic jokes, lilting bass riffs and theatrical vocals, the art-rock trio’s sophomore album Business & Pleasure contains the full range of human emotion in this perpetual stew.
On Business & Pleasure, Gumby’s Junk channels the motion sickness intensity of their intoxicating, connective and vertigo- inducing live performance. Written in full collaboration by three long time friends, the album is the fully realized form of their singular blend of maximalist through-composed tracks drizzled with freakish improv. The record mimics the experience of finally popping your ears after a long descent into a staticky RadioShack basement.
With mixing handled by art rock legend Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, this puzzle made up of a bunch of dull razor blades was assisted into sonic coherence.
