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Artist
Bungalow Bums
12+ albums
Garage Rockgaragerussianindie rockproto-punk
about
BUNGALOW BUMS are from Omsk in southern Siberia. They’ve been around since 2006, when they originally cranked out songs under the direct influence of britpop and US rock. With time, however, their interests and influences have moved backwards through the history books. Their listed idols begin with the time-tested threesome of The Stooges, MC5, and the New York Dolls. Somewhere in this post, therefore, the term garage rock is bound to pop up. And indeed the band tell us, almost immediately: “We soon developed a love for classic garage rock from the 1960s in all its forms.” Nonetheless, they’ve tried hard to draw a clear and lasting line between admiration and adulation. “We’ve refused to tie ourselves to any one style or period. We stick to an experimental approach to songwriting. Our music isn’t boxed in by the preexisting concepts of a particular sound or style. All the band members have equal rights in the compositional process. Everybody plays their part of the song the way they see it personally. That’s what gives our band the status of some unique musical cocktail or other.” The most recent adventures in this ongoing experimentation have been defined as moving towards noise- and/or stoner-rock, which is a fair description of the four tracks in this post. Together they constitute the brand-new release, “Jenny Feels Great.” Simplicity is the name of the game throughout this EP: “The band isn’t striving for especially complicated or carefully-fashioned melodies. The music
