Search - Royal Bangs :: We Breed Champions

"A nerd fantasia, a robo-rhythmic onslaught." -- Metro Pulse "Ingenious, and brutally catchy." -- Knoxville Voice "After the guitars are finished dueling, they're happy friends holding hands, sharing milkshakes from the same straw, and playing rambling, orchestrated Frank Zappa melodies." -- The Morning News "Blazing energy, abstractly hook-laden songs, and skinny, middle-class guitar soul." -- High Country News "Akron's Audio Eagle Records has a spotless reputation so far after releasing three of Ohio's finest rock releases in recent years ... Now, joining Audio Eagle's ranks is the label's first non-Buckeye band, Knoxville's Royal Bangs. The peppy, poppy indie rock fivesome impressed Columbusites last summer at Café Bourbon Street, and judging by the quality of the free MP3 Audio Eagle distributed yesterday, We Breed Champions ... is just as impressive." -- Columbus Alive "Knoxville, Tennessee's Royal Bangs may be the first artist outside of the Buckeye State signed to Akron's Audio Eagle Records, but they aren't entirely out of place on their new home. They share their labelmate Houseguest's quirkiness and offbeat sense of humor, and label head Patrick Carney's affinity for old style garage rock ... easy rhythm and a vocal drawl reminiscent of The Strokes or The French Kicks ... musically unpredictable." -- I Rock Cleveland From Knoxville, Royal Bangs is a laser-fueled, turbo-pop destroyer of bad stuff; a musical group sent down from burger heaven. Previously called "like Radiohead vs. fifteen bottles of Southern Comfort," "nerd fantasia," and "awful" by members of the press. The band recorded We Breed Champions, their debut full-length on Audio Eagle Records, on their own. They sound awesome, like a wall of beats from a computer blasting dueling guitar wizards into hot dog hell, and sheets of red-hot synth slam dunk singing together as a dangerous old/new pop octopus.