Stream Brass Box's New Album At Audiofemme

Los Angeles-based band Brass Box will release their new LP The Cathedral this Friday on Dune Altar. The Cathedral can be pre-ordered now on CD and LP HERE. In anticipation of Friday's release the album is streaming in full at AudioFemme along with exclusive interview with Brass Box's Ammo Bankoff. About the album Audiofemme says, "At the opening, Brass Box sets the tone with 'Bats,' complete with a rolling guitar lick, vigorous drums, and sweet, faraway vocals from lead singer and bassist Ammo Bankoff; there's a lot more tension there than the usual shoegaze description with which the band is often labelled. As The Cathedral continues, Bankoff, along with guitarists Neil Popkin and Matt Bennett and drummer Pablo Amador, take a torch into the darkness, exploring landscapes thick with fog, witches hiding in thickets, and romance consummated beneath a full moon."

Brass Box have announced a West Coast tour in support of The Cathedral which kicks off on Friday in Portland at Out From The Shadows Fest. The upcoming tour will include shows in Portland, Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles Record Release show coming up on April 12 at The Echoplex (tickets). All upcoming shows are listed below.

Brass Box allures listeners into a velvet sea of atmospheric waves. Singer and bassist Ammo Bankoff (Tête, Black Flamingo), guitarist Neil Popkin (War Tapes, Rituals), guitarist Matt Bennett (War Tapes), and drummer Pablo Amador (Magic Wands) invite their audience onto the spectral shores of a dream.

After Bankoff booked Popkin's first Los Angeles show in 2006 alongside one of her earlier projects, the two continued to exchange ideas in Los Angeles' liminal spaces, running into each other at galleries and warehouse shows. Popkin recalls that he was always drawn to Bankoff's early projects and artistic vision, but the two were preoccupied by their own pursuits, and collaboration never ensued.

In 2013, a change encounter inspired Bankoff to share her early demos with Popkin. The two realized that they had a symbiotic creative trajectory which become the genesis of Brass Box. Later, the duo added Bennett and Amador as the scaffolding to their intonation. This addition lead to the foundation of their current lineup.

Their leading singles were met with success from an myriad of notable publications including Post-Punk calling its compositions "...a surreal reverie [having] the sonic texture of crushed velvet imbued with the lingering scent of burnt incense and clove cigarettes circa October of 1993," and LA Recordnoting them as "...dedicated to making the kind of music that should soundtrack a sand-dune-to-shoreline road movie by David Lynch."

Brass Box Tour Dates

04.05 - Portland, OR @ Out From The Shadows Fest

04.07 - Vancouver, BC Astoria Hotel

04.08 - Seattle, WA @ Central Saloon

04.09 - Oakland, CA @ Elbo Room

04.11 - Joshua Tree, CA @ Furstworld

04.12 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex

04.14 - San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop

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