The date swiftly approaches for the new album, their first in almost 6 years, from New York duo Buke and Gase. Scholars, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s General Dome, will be released January 18th via Brassland. They’ve previously shared 3 new songs off the album, displaying an uncompromisingly diverse aesthetic and sonic palette. Any previous attempts to pigeon-hole the band as a curio, a duo of experimental mad scientists with DIY instruments, is blown out of the water with these utterly unique, forward-thinking songs. Their new album embraces a form of expression that is more concise, more emotional & less perverse in its uniqueness. They have embraced the same computer- and synthesizer-driven creative tools that make electronic music, pop and trap music function, while existing entirely in their own, fully imagined universe of sound.
Which brings us to today, when the band shares the album’s title track and announces a slew of tour dates in Europe and the United States. Here’s what singer Arone Dyer had to say about Scholars:
“When I sing this, I picture a quintessential trouble child whose parents express a need for the control they know they don’t have. When I sing this, I picture being gaslit by a lover. When I sing this, I imagine myself bigger than I am, and growing, a crown of stars waits for me. When I sing this, my chest billows with a desire to believe that I will overcome my faults, even though the subtle judgment that I won’t by those I love compresses my spine, keeping me Earthbound. I extend this empathy to those whose truths aren’t yet recognized by contradictive social expectations.”
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “SCHOLARS” https://youtu.be/proUg8S6wVg
BUKE AND GASE TOUR DATES Sun. Feb. 3 – Catskill, NY @ Catskill Mill Mon. March 4 – Manchester, UK @ The Castle Tue. March 5 – London, UK @ The Lexington Wed. March 6 – Dublin, IE @ The Grand Social Thu. March 7 – Paris, FR @ Supersonic Fri. March 8 – Cologne, DE @ Stadtgarden Sun. March 10 – Berlin, DE @ Berliner Festspiele Mon. March 11 – Jena, DE @ Trafo Tue. March 12 – Nuremberg, DE @ Kantine Wed. March 13 – Munich, DE @ Rote Sonne Thu. March 14 – Dündingen, SE @ Bad Bonn Fri. March 15 – Turin, IT @ Blah Blah Wed. March 27 – New Haven, CT @ Space Ballroom Thu. March 28 – Boston, MA @ The Middle East Club Fri. March 29 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo Sat. March 30 – Toronto, ON @ Monarch Tavern Tue. April 2 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
WATCH “DERBY” https://youtu.be/Jro9yH78hwY WATCH “NO LAND” https://youtu.be/bW0K31nZEEQ WATCH “PINK BOOTS” https://youtu.be/pv4U713Yk6cgo
PRAISE FOR BUKE AND GASE “No other bands sound quite like the duo of Buke & Gase” — NPR Music “It’s got a creepy kind of magic to it” — Stereogum [about “Derby” “thumping, skronking, ever-ascending guitar-pop oddity about the looming environmental crisis our planet is facing…eerily catchy refrain” — Stereogum [about “No Land”] “no real adequate response to what Buke And Gase is beyond ‘listen to them yourself’” — The Sound Board
Buke and Gase Online: https://bukeandgase.com/ https://bukeandgase.bandcamp.com/ https://instagram.com/bukeandgase/ https://facebook.com/bukeandgase/ https://twitter.com/bukeandgase
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