It’s been a long time coming
David Crosby’s punchline from 1969 could never have been more fitting. After a ten year hiatus Bönkers are ready with their long-awaited second album – Time to Harvest. (2009).
Verdens Gang, Norway’s biggest newspaper, praises the album, insisting that Bönkers is “just as good and timeless ten years after their debut”, and labelling the band as “one of the country’s best kept secrets”.
Bönkers was formed in 1995, inspired by the best of vintage American rock and leading alt. country bands such as The Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo and Wilco. On their first release Rusty Tubes (EP,1997), Bönkers had already developed their own distinctive style, with overdriven guitars and insisting steel guitar licks surrounding Gaute Öien's characteristic lead vocal.
On their full-length debut Opp (1999), produced by former Wilco-steel guitarist Bob Egan, the band went for a more refined sound, developing their melodies to another level. The album was enthusiastically received in all the major newspapers in Norway, and the band was invited to play at the NXNW festival in Portland, Oregon. Since then little has been heard from them.
Conscientiously crafting new songs and bringing up children enough for a new big band, Bönkers have kept a low profile in the ten years following their critically acclaimed album.
Led by multi-instrumentalist Øien, a true perfectionist, the long awaited release shows a band that have welded the rough edginess of their first effort with the sophistication and strong melodic sense of Opp. The record is dense with lush vocal harmonies and weaving guitars, steel guitars and keyboards. The band's growing interest in their own Norwegian folk music heritage is also noticeable, with fiddles and accordions blending in nicely. It is a mighty fine album that proves that, after all, it’s been worth
the wait.
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This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.
Hello, it's that time of the month again when we add more lovely music to our site. This month's happy foursome are The Barker Band in wistful mode, the summer of love-ish Old Californio, the anything but summer love-ish Christopher Rees and, wait for it..."Travelling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT" from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, which evenr if it was rubbish (and it's not) just had to be included for the names alone.
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