“It’s just a natural growth,” Brenneck says, admitting: “We’re going further away from the sound of Daptone and into territory they probably wanted to stay away from.” As a result, Frontier’s Edge finds the group hungry, passionate and primed to charge into their next epoch newfound sense autonomy within the collective. The band’s departure from Daptone was on good terms the split from their long-time home base was an organic result of the band’s evolution.
After a two-decade run with the legendary Daptone Records, Frontier’s Edge is the first new music from the group on the new label Diamond West Records - run by Budos saxophonist Jared Tankel and guitarist Tom Brenneck. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Frontier’s Edge is the new EP by the fiery, energetic and genre-defying group The Budos Band. Regan, Keith and I finished these tracks without our spiritual leader and our singer.” Our texting that week described how we were gonna take all our lessons from lost days about how we were better together, each part perfectly imperfect, and finally get back to the magic of music and our unique sound. Let’s finish this record we started five years before.’ Lots of reasons for the pause in finishing. Says Gossard: “We had texted a lot the week before Shawn’s passing: ‘Let’s do this.
The album features 10 never-released songs, and all the lyrics were solely written by vocalist Smith before his passing in 2019, with the exception made for Stars N’ You, a song written by late Seattle musician Andrew Wood ( Malfunkshun, Mother Love Bone) and recorded by Malfunkshun for C/Z Records’ 1986 Deep Six compilation, which represents the early inception of the Seattle grunge scene. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ In the Moment That You’re Born is the first new music from Brad - Stone Gossard ( Green River, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam), Regan Hagar ( Malfunkshun), Shawn Smith and Keith Lowe - in over a decade, and is released 30 years after their 1993 debut album Shame. Live albums, solo sets, posthumous releases, comebacks and stylistic left turns - can you tell it’s the middle of summer? Here are your plays of the week:
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