NEWS: OhBree Release Unruly Adventure BURN BRIDGES, BURN PIES Out TODAY!

May 22, 2017  •  Leave a Comment

 

8-piece unruly indie troupe, OhBree, has just released their newest dark, silly, spiraling adventure of an album - Burn Bridges, Burn Pies. The record is available on all streaming platforms, iTunes, and amazon, but you can also catch the whole thing streaming today on Facebook Live!

 

The band has a stream running all day of frontman, Andrew Scott, sitting in a chair and singing through the album over and over again while remaining distantly numb to an insane background of events that slowly unfold over the course of time. Two hooded figures will spend the several hours developing a mad scene of messiness as the album rolls through its wacky rollercoaster of sounds.

Check out the live stream here (2-7pm at this link and idefinitely on the OhBree Facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/ohbreemusic/videos/1735014343193078

Hear the album and buy the vinyl here: https://ohbree.bandcamp.com/album/burn-bridges-burn-pies

The troupe's first album, We Miss You Edward, Come Home, is a bizarre pit-orchestra-influenced spiral of 17 songs that manifested in a lighthearted theatrical headtrip, while the second LP, Death By Broomstick, took a much darker spin on their pop sensibilities. Soon after Death By Broomstick, OhBree released their extremely well-received EP Feed Me Poison that Consequence of Sound described as “A four-song odyssey into a world of weirdo guitar riffs and off-kilter piano arrangements.”

 

“Burn Bridges, Burn Pies brings our message together,” says Andrew. “The themes remain dark, but we bring back the Monty Python/Dr.Seussian absurdity of our first record.”

 

Andrew’s love for bands like They Might Be Giants and The Presidents Of The United States Of America has been filtered through the lens of a pit-orchestra musician, where he began his musical career. This saturation of musical theater and 90’s garage rock also encouraged his use of oddball characters as the subject of his lyrics - many of whom have become recurring motifs that reach across all four of OhBree’s studio releases. “These characters are digestible but exaggerated versions of archetypes that I like to anchor on. As we churned out more music I kept going back to these characters because their job wasn’t done yet - you know… like Gandalf the White or something.”

Burn Bridges, Burn Pies has already grabbed the attention of publications like Substream Magazine who described the music as a “piano-driven, roller coaster of fun from start to finish.” It kicks off with a supervillain facet via “Spine” and “Tiny Tethers” - finds haunting and heavy dread on “Square Boxes, Square Thoughts” and “Motivation for a Dying Man” - and taps into the group’s surreal form of silliness with “Skeleton Ave” and “Which Doctor, Witch Doctor?” The whole record features stories influenced by Andrew’s endless consumption of science-fiction and years of playing Dungeons and Dragons (currently a lvl 9 paladin). Most of OhBree's songs are sung from the perspective of fictional characters created by Andrew - and almost all of those characters are reoccurring throughout the band's discography.

 

Burn Bridges, Burn Pies can be found here:

 

Burn Bridges, Burn Pies was produced at Sleepless Sound Studio by Adam Laub and will be released digitally and on ocean blue vinyl records featuring the art of Debbie Fong on May 19th, 2017. OhBree is Andrew Scott (vocals/keys), Adam Laub (drums), Bob Iacono (trumpet), Tyler Mack (trombone/guitar), Lucas Kozinski (guitar), Kyle Press (saxophone), Michael Aherne (bass), Connor Przybyszewski (trombone).

RELEASE SHOW:

June 24th - Johnny Brenda's With Grandchildren, Mumblr, and Glenn Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - TICKETS


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