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Artist
Burger Kingdom
10+ albums
Kansas City
about
Masters of reverb, delay, fuzz, loops, puns, and supreme hipness, Burger Kingdom has been churning out hazey lo-fi shoegaze since summer 2008 when the instrumental guitar comedy duo formerly known as Umbros morphed into the current guitar and drums setup. Seated behind a bass drum with “Burger Kingdom” scrawled in glow in the dark puff paint over the aged mark of “UMBROS,” Stephen Howard provides the beastly beats while Erik Moore bounces before a massive pedal board that gives his guitar the perfect wash of distorted echo. Sitting atop of the maelstrom of drums, and guitar noise is Moore’s choir like falsetto, sang lovingly into his signature gold plated microphone. In addition to original tunes, the fast-food royalty has an artillery of cover songs they occasionally pull out, like the Cranberries’ “Dreams” and Brian Eno’s “Needle in the Camels Eye” to “Oh My My” by Columbia, MO, natives Nonreturner. In 2009 they recorded and released the Hand of Gold cassette, which features one side of originals and a b-side of covers all in the distinct style of Burger Kingdom. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.