Anna Butterss
Mighty Vertebrate
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
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Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
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Estimated Release Date: 04 October 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
Estimated Release Date: 04 October 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
Estimated Release Date: 04 October 2024
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
LA-based Aussie bassist and composer Anna Butterss - who's played with everyone from Makaya McCraven to Phoebe Bridgers - challenges their own formula on 'Mighty Vertebrate', creating odd rhythms and textures that twist up the jazz status quo. One for fans of Sam Gendel, for sure.
On their 2022 debut 'Activities', Butterss used a time consuming method of improvisation and editing, but hit with tours and collaborations, they needed a different option this time around. They began to work with focused, specific tasks or prompts ("I'm going to start with a drum machine") that helped them construct a sequence of interrelated songs that grew as they evolved. So alongside a tight group of trusted collaborators - Josh Johnson on sax and FX, Gregory Uhlmann on guitar and FX and Ben Lumsdaine on drums, guitar and lap steel - they set about turning 'Mighty Vertebrate' from sketches into songs. And there's a refreshing sense of progression throughout; the drum machine-led 'Shorn' is an early highlight, skittering alongside Butterss' dextrous bassline and Lumsdaine's acoustic percussion, while Lubbock has the gusty grandeur of Chicago's '90s heyday - think Labradford or Tortoise.
Fittingly, the legendary Jeff Parker shows up on 'Dance Steve' to add blurry electric guitar to Butterss' fractal slop of samples and city pop-like synth stabs, and on 'Breadrich', bendy vocal snippets curve around the band's chaotic fusion of psych rock, sci-fi electronics and jerky breaks.
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