Named after the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (the only director to make his mark by showing exactly what happens when straight razors meet eyeballs), like the filmmaker BUÑUEL are innovators. Formed by Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Xabier Iriondo, Franz Valente (Il Teatro Degli Orrori), and Carlo Veneziano (One Dimensional Man), the band delivers a turbulent, static-charged noise rock, pushed by raw power – we couldn’t be more thrilled to have them back.
BUÑUEL is the sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. If you must put them in a genre, file them under Heavy – with a capital H. But not the kind of heavy you can predict. Their amalgam of angular rhythms, drum salvos, blitzkrieging guitars, and vocals that sound more like threats than promises is post-punk, proto-heavy, and artfully unhinged. Arty as in avant-garde noise, not niceties.
“Buñuel make darkly fascinating music, a compelling noise noir that shuns the obvious routes but is still swift and direct.” – The Quietus
