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Bueno Premiere “Eye On The Cards” via Consequence of Sound – “Illuminate Your Room” Out 8/19 (Exploding In Sound + Babe City Records)

July 10, 2016
Danny Lane

Danny Lane

 

Bueno Keep Their “Eye On The Cards” via Consequence of Sound

Illuminate Your Room Out August 19th on Exploding In Sound + Babe City Records

Bueno are excited to share “Eye On The Cards,” the second single from the Staten Island quintet’s highly anticipated sophomore album. While first single “I Got Your Back” focused the band’s indie punk with a laid back “college rock” vibe, “Eye On The Cards” picks up the action with a nod to post-punk grooves and Luke Chiaruttini’s semi-spoken word free-styled vocals. Illuminate Your Room, due out August 19th via Exploding In Sound andBabe City Records, is a concept record built upon an aural grab bag of decades of New York City rock to catalog a 24-hour span, opening in the early morning hours with meandering and somber piano, and closing out the album by evoking late evening with a howling, aching saxophone. Bueno are an unpredictable band and Illuminate captures the unease of living in the a city that never sleeps, up against gender expectations, suburban malaise, and technological excess.

Consequence of Sound premiered “Eye On The Cards” sharing, “Chiaruttini’s ominous and semi-spoken vocals, when paired with the doomful drumming and distorted guitar chords, result in a cautionary track that both succumbs to and warns of what happens if you keep your eyes on the cards. Or even worse, what can happen when you look away.”

To put things in far more simple terms, Illuminate Your Room jams, a result of letting the tape run and capturing the quintet in their natural element. Bueno have crafted an eclectic record that combines their own brand of punk, indie rock, fuzzy soul, funk, and post-punk in a Talking Heads meets Television meet Sinatra sort of way and the results are stunning throughout their new record. Led by Shea Stadium’s own Luke Chiaruttini, the band has a knack for organically jammed out punk, built upon a lifetime of friendship. Illuminate Your Room is a modern New York City masterpiece.

UPCOMING SHOWS:

07/08 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong w/ BRNDA & Governess
07/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ 148 Moffat w/ Fat Heaven, Stringer & BRNDA
07/15 – New Brunswick, NJ @ J-House w/ YJY, Secret Mountain, Ghost Camp, & Julian Fulton
07/28 – New York, NY @ Bowery Electric w/ James Chance & The Contortions & Future Punx
07/31 – Staten Island, NY @ Staten Island Yankees Stadium
08/26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Shea Stadium (Album Release Show)

ABOUT BUENO:

Bueno lead man Luke Chiaruttini first met Mikey Gagliardi, who plays guitar and sax, on a bus ride home from Catholic school. Mikey threw his shoe at Luke’s head, and then kindly asked for Luke to give it back. It was one of the many quiet rebellions that Mikey, Luke, Joe Imburgio (bass), AJ Pantaleo (drums), and Mike DiBenedetto (guitar) would engage in throughout their adolescent years growing up and fucking up in Staten Island. Whether sneaking in underage for rock shows at the now-defunct Martini Red, or journeying to the middle-of-nowhere Staten Island to play packed shows, the guys of Bueno know music at their home base can be an uneven struggle. Yet the borough holds a quiet abundance of creative energy that has pushed Bueno to be as enterprising as any other act throughout the five boroughs.

Bueno has journeyed a long way from their early days on the school bus. The band has grown up through the Staten Island rites of passage – rebellion, Catholic guilt, apathy, malaise. They’ve also toured around the country, and during their most recent travels, Chiaruttini took to writing Illuminate Your Room, the follow up to 2015’s Guilt. Illuminate has all of the yearning and exploration of a trip written right into its DNA. Largely recorded in Sunset Park at the homespun studios of Shea Stadium guru Adam Reich, Illuminatebristles with the unpredictability and raw energy of Bueno’s strong suit, the jam session. Guitar occasionally jumps ahead of bass and drums, and songs cut in abruptly simply because Reich thought to hit record mid-jam. But Chiaruttini took to writing more of this record, and the structure of Illuminate is more plotted out. The album draws upon the aural grab bag of decades of New York City rock to catalog a 24-hour span, opening in the early morning hours with meandering and somber piano, and closing out the album by evoking late evening with a howling, aching saxophone.

Ultimately, Illuminate Your Room is an internal journey, a meditation on Chiaruttini’s own push and pull relationship with society in all its forms. Up against gender expectations, suburban malaise, and technological excess, Chiaruttini finds his escape in having no purpose. Album standout “Oh Lord I’m Confused,” for example, weaves together fast and loose guitars with a story of a girl from D.C. who spends her afternoons drinking champagne and playing the drums. The song conveys that rollicking, fleeting sensation of being apart from society yet still at the heart of the sprawling American empire, overstimulated and completely alone. Chiaruttini finds these pockets of 21st century isolation closer to home too – on the atmospheric title track, he walks around the Island in the pre-dawn morning to find a scattered array of windows lit up by TV glow or a bedside lamp. In our most intimate spaces, at all hours of the day, society’s reach still holds strong. Because even in a sleepy borough like Staten Island, it’s still so damn hard for Bueno to get any rest.

“With jamming reminiscent of Pavement, Velvet Underground-like candor, and Talking Heads style elasticity, Bueno’s funky punk vibes are electric.” – The FADER

BUENO
“ILLUMINATE YOUR ROOM”
Exploding In Sound + Babe City Records
August 19, 2016
Pre-Order

1. Rosebank 5:00AM (Intro)
2. I Got Your Back
3. Oh Lord I’m Confused
4. Blown Out
5. Wasted Anyway
6. I Feel So Raw
7. Hizznherz
8. Eye On The Cards
9. Mona (1991 – 2015)
10. Burn This Year
11. Babyface
12. Illuminate Your Room (Rosebank 4:59AM)

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