"With seemingly boundless sonic ingenuity, Eleven Theatres unfolds as a vivid, sensuous document so full of pleasant surprises that it's not hard to imagine the Atomic Bomb Audition sharing a bill with Laurie Anderson, Tortoise, Shellac, or hell, Morrissey." -Nathan Baker, SF Bay GuardianHailing out of Oakland, CA, ABA (or The Atomic Bomb Audition if you're not into the whole brevity thing) performs cinematic orchestrations for quartet. Instrumentals where surf guitars make way for discordant...
"With seemingly boundless sonic ingenuity, Eleven Theatres unfolds as a vivid, sensuous document so full of pleasant surprises that it's not hard to imagine the Atomic Bomb Audition sharing a bill with Laurie Anderson, Tortoise, Shellac, or hell, Morrissey." -Nathan Baker, SF Bay GuardianHailing out of Oakland, CA, ABA (or The Atomic Bomb Audition if you're not into the whole brevity thing) performs cinematic orchestrations for quartet. Instrumentals where surf guitars make way for discordant soundscapes; electronic drones enter civil unions with folk melodies, and doom ascends from the abyss in riff form. To compress this vision, imagine Ennio Morricone leading The Melvins, or if Rod Serling produced the soundtrack to Fantasia. In all, The Atomic Bomb Audition is founded on a love of music with integrity, appreciation for delicate sonorous minutiae, very high volume, frustration with the end of times, and comedy.
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