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Stein uses a Fender Bassman to power a custom built cabinet with purple tolex covering, a 12″ Eminence Swamp Thang driver and footswitch-controlled strobe lights behind the grill cloth created by fellow Nashvillian James Rhew.
It’s a sound that comes from a combination of custom and classic gear, mass-market and micro-boutique tools, tweaked and twisted for maximum effect. What we’re trying to say is that these dudes can get loud, loud in that way most bands could only dream of. Powered by lead singer Jonas Stein’s Gibson SG, lead guitarist Kingsley Brock’s Aria – an early ‘70s Japanese Les Paul imitator – and the low-end from bassist Dave Tits’ Epiphone Thunderbird or prototype, Ibanez short-scale hollow body, Butter tows the line between classic and obscure, familiar and exotic, to create a sound that’s clearly modern but built on retro tones.īut albums are only part of the equation, and Turbo Fruits have built their reputations not as a studio band but as an intense live experience, as an explosion of amplification that’s as undeniable as it is unavoidable. Produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno, Butter is as raw and unpretentious of a guitar record as one could hope for, a record that switches between scuzzy glam and pristine surf guitars at the drop of a hat. The Fruits are on the road prepping the world for their forthcoming Serpents and Snakes release Butter, a raucous and rowdy jangle-punk record that tows the line between full-on rawk intensity and pop accessibility. But for now, they just want to get to the club and unload their gear.
They’re in the midst of eight weeks on the road with Deer Tick – a band legendary for its ability to keep partying when everyone else passes out – and you can tell that the Fruits have been keeping up with their more established party rockin’ friends. Border guards and customs check points aren’t exactly things that make a band of Turbo Fruits’ ilk – shaggy looking stoners with a penchant for fuzzed-up rock and roll played at intense volumes – feel comfortable and the sooner they can get to the club and unload their gear the better they’ll feel. That has to exist.When American Songwriter gets a hold of the Turbo Fruits, they’re hauling ass on the way to El Paso, trying to put as much distance between themselves and the Mexican border as possible. It’s very important to me that the vinyl is there for people who do want the vinyl.” “I don’t care if people want to listen to it on mono, or digital, or steal it, whatever: I just want it to be pumping through their stereo system. “It’s an evolved type of record label – where everyone’s really in it together – and I’m just excited to be at the beginning of ,” he says. With plans to do a run of Butter on vinyl as well – pressed on butter-colored wax, naturally – Stein’s thrilled that the album’s going to be Serpents and Snakes’ #001.
We were just like, no bullshit, no fuckin’ around, this is the way we’re starting off the record.” The first song on the album, ‘Where The Stars Don’t Shine,’ was recorded live with no overdubs. I’ve never been more prepared for recording a record in my life. I’d say this third record was a bit more of a communal writing experience than the first two – more people chimed in on this one. “It took three years for me to find a permanent lineup, and in the three years since then we’ve really grown together,” says Stein. Produced by Jim Eno of Spoon and with the endorsement of the aforementioned Followill family of Kings of Leon, Butter serves as a coming out album of sorts for the Nashville rock quartet – a debut Stein’s been waiting for since the inception of the band six years ago. Whatever it was about rap or Celtic crooning, the weirdness worked, as the wall of noise Butter delivers is a roughly 34-minute barrage of furious riffs and driving anthems that come together in a solid, straightforward body of sound. It made me feel really weird, so I went back to Enya’s greatest hits with a fresh pair of ears and turned it up really loud.” I wanted to hear something that was totally unattached. “Rock and roll is our first love,” says Stein, “but I was trying to listen to stuff that was still getting me off.
Lil Wayne, ‘70s soul and Enya: this is the “weird shit” Jonas Stein of Turbo Fruits was listening to while writing and recording Butter, their forthcoming record and the latest release on Serpents and Snakes, the label founded and maintained by Kings of Leon.
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