Brower

Brower

Flour

Dig! Records

***Flour is the long-awaited, much-anticipated, full-course follow-up to Buzzsaws—Brower’s debut album from 2018. Sure, there’s been tasty snacks and treats to sustain folks along the way: several singles worth, and a totally authentic “Live” album. But this is the fresh new long-player platter you’ve hungered for. Again, recorded entirely by Nat, at home and in the practice space (that is, various different practice spaces, due to unruly landlords) in Brooklyn. The recording project spanned several years due to touring, gigging, and rehearsing with the myriad of bands that form the Brower Cinematic Universe (including the live band, Brower; plus Josephine Network, Nancy, Metalleg, and The Wand-ers), not to mention working the many day-jobs it requires to barley sustain life in NYC. Flour is benefited by this kind of “slow” practice, where time lends itself to exploration. One gets a sense of Brower’s freedom to stretch out and try new things, new instrumentation, and take a deeper dive into the songwriting always brewing between his ears. In Brower’s kitchen, his recipe for Flour was created, tasted, tested, reworked, revisited, and rebuilt—from scratch—to the delight of the most choosy of rock ‘n’ roll gourmands and punk rock bon vivants. As they say, good food takes time. Now, once again, Brower is served. RECOMMENDED IF YOU DIG! Lennon, Nilsson, Beach Boys, Sweet, or Elton Motello.

Brower

Live And Contagious

Dig! Records

***All you need to know about BROWER’s new live album, Live And Contagious, is that it’s the last live album ever recorded from the last live concert held––ever. What else there is to know while we’re at it: Live And Contagious is a proper-recorded, full band-represented, career-spanning glam-punk rockathon from the before times; emceed by WFMU’s Todd-o-phonic Todd in front of an unsuspecting, captivated and sold-out crowd back in March of 2020. Opening with the previously unreleased, live staple, and lead single “Heart Is Real,” the stage is set and souped-up for an evening of Brower-brand revelry with the accompaniment of Josephine (Josephine Network) on lead guitar, Hershguy (Dirty Fences) behind the kit and the “Dr.” Josh Hahn (Relic Room Studios)

Brower

Buzzsaws

Dig! Records

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Buzzsaws is the debut album by BROWER, the solo project of NAT BROWER, resident of Ridgewood Queens and erstwhile NANCY and METALLEG compatriot, already championing the spirits and sounds of our most cherished Punk and Rock musical varietals the world over. After last spring’s Little Big EP, Brower is back, and the fire behind that ass is simply inextinguishable! Enter Buzzsaws—a glam’d-out glitter-bomb of fuzz guitars and giant vocal melodies within the Venn diagram of Bolan, Bowie and Brett (Smiley). Like Little Big, each song is jammed full of sugarcoated harmonies, laser-beam licks and unearthly hooks. Unlike Little Big, Brower shows his teeth on Buzzsaws—and they are gnarly, thanks to all the sugarcoated harmonies—with several dbs of gain and big city grit added to the mix. The Brower live show features members of DIRTY FENCES and VELVETEEN RABBIT.