Location: Chicago, Illinois
Country: USA
Genre: Industrial noise rock, experimental
Full length: Burndy
Format: Digital, limited edition colored vinyl
Label: Independent
Release date: May 2, 2025
As a mesmerizing, fascinating vehicle for expressing rage and rejection of being held down, Burndy's self-titled debut album raises the question of what bands may achieve with a blend of post-punk, industrial, and experimental noise.
Vocalist Megan Emish began this Chicago band fairly quickly by posting online that she was looking for musicians to experiment with creating something that had never been attempted. It began with traditional arrangements with bassoon and evolved into what we hear on this album, with the same steady development presented from the start to the end.
Burndy is compared to Joy Division, Cop Shoot Cop, Coil and Big Black, with an attitude that can’t exactly be equated with any of those bands. As the deep, minimalist melodies vibrate and pulse with unending energy, complete with electronic percussion and the consistent enhancement of static, their potency is somehow both serene and wrathful, as if an angel (or the earthly equivalent of an angel) has been wronged once too often throughout time and is slowly growing darker by disposition.
Like a raw and open wound, Burndy’s debut is burned around the edges as stated in its bio. If you imagine Lydia Lunch and Godflesh working together, "Burndy" comes really close to that sound. While some may find this unrefined, almost primal spiritedness offensive, it is more a purging of negative and nihilistic inclinations; a purging of gaslighting, a purging of scapegoating, a purging of the ruthless theft of innocence, as if cleansing and ultimately healing the mind of displeasure and resentment.
The varying levels of anguish shake with animated dynamism from its quieter moments to its most clamorous moments, augmenting themselves until the surface of the quagmire, always in sight but never quite reached, is broken and it becomes apparent that resistance and defiance are the only means of escape from all that negative influence. This realization comes like a crescendo of vitality we somehow saw coming all along. At the end of the day, it's a much more positive statement since it's all about loosing that unnecessary weight and regaining one’s own inner strength. –Dave Wolff
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Lineup:
Megan Emish: Vocals, electric ukulele
Jessie Ambriz: Bass
Sally Sachs: Bassoon
Track list:
1. Agcat
2. Come In
3. Burn
4. Breathe
5. Surface
6. Cinders
7. Mask
8. Static
9. Refuse
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