***TUNABUNNY from Athens, Georgia take their most dance oriented track "Form A Line" from their recent and third album Genius Fatigue and give it the remix treatment and have a dream come true with having VANESSA HAYof the legendary post-punk band PYLON, one of Athens' most iconic voices doing her own version of the song with the band backing her. Edition of 200 copies.
12" $10.50
04/30/2013
***Genius Fatigue is 37 minutes bursting with ideas. Punk rock, new wave, power pop, no wave breakdowns, experimental ballads, musique concrete, and free jazz solos—it’s all in there, combined with a lyrical prowess that borders on the intimidating. Genius Fatigue attacks with a clear-eyed frenzy. It is the boldest, brightest TUNABUNNY yet. Ten songs about drag queens & political defiance, notoriety & humiliation, casting couches & Hollywood uncles, the end of the world & the beginning of life. Impossible to classify, impossible to put down, Genius Fatigue is a classic. The band is already at work on their next album, expected summer 2013. They are available for interviews and grief counseling sessions. (STREET DATE - 1/29/2013)
LP $14.00
01/29/2013
CD $9.25
01/29/2013
***TUNABUNNY is, for now, less of a criminal element that it used to be. On last year’s self-titled debut album, you had to listen closely to hear the Blondie, to hear the Abba, to hear the pop. Some people just heard noise. Some people thought it was glorious. The album received rave reviews in some unexpected places, including Everett True in Australia (‘this music makes me deliriously happy’) and a top-5 end of year placing on the BBC’s website. They’ve been mentioned in the same breath as Sonic Youth, Kraftwerk, and Can. And this spring saw a successful tour of the eastern half of the United States. Now comes Minima Moralia. The album marks an unprecedented leap, like the one that took Nirvana from Bleach to Nevermind, like Pavement from those early EPs to Slanted & Enchanted. This year’s Tunabunny marks a shift from noise towards melody, from chaos towards structure, from indifference towards rapture. It signals a Tunabunny more pop, yet more intense; more accessible, yet more desperate; more comforting, and yet more uncomfortable. Minima Moralia takes the first album and ratchets up the melody, the chaos, the intensity, and the beauty. Even Southern Baptists can believe in their evolution.
LP $14.00
09/27/2011
***TUNABUNNY sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Their debut album walks an amphetamine path between Pere Ubu and The Raincoats. Three girls, one guy, and a synthesizer sitting on a carpet covered in paint and the sprawled out works of Julio Cortazar, Tunabunny has fallen down the rabbit hole and is begging you to follow, even as they doubt your own existence. Growing up in Athens, Georgia surrounded by a surplus of instruments and boredom, Tunabunny set out to remind people that pop/rock music shouldn’t be about technical ability or social networking. They’re wrong of course. Pop/rock music in the 21 st century is a played-out corpse being skullfucked by overprivileged boys and girls hoping to manufacture a personality for themselves out of something that other people think is cool. That is why Tunabunny thinks of pop/rock as something that should be destroyed, or at the very least subverted, but would probably be better for everyone involved if it simply ceased to exist. LP comes with digital download.
LP $14.00
09/21/2010