Minneapolis four-piece Banner Pilot have announced a new record this spring. On April 15, the band will release Souvenir, their fourth full-length, which will be released by Fat Wreck Chords.
The band last released Heart Beats Pacific in 2011.
Track List
1: Modern Shakes
2: Effigy
3: Dead Tracks
4: Heat Rash
5: Fireproof
6: Letterbox
7: Shoreline
8: Hold Fast
9: Colfax
10: Springless
11: Matchstick
12: Summer Ash
Often when a critic writes of a band not changing its sound it’s meant in the negative light: art should be about exploring new boundaries and punching the listener in the face with something new. But sometimes it’s not.Banner Pilot have been kicking out raspy pop-punk jams for the better part of a decade now—since 2005—and in that time they’ve … Read more
I’ll be honest. I was kind of hoping somebody else would review this record. I like Banner Pilot. A lot. The reason I didn’t want to do this myself has more to do with the fact that I’ve reviewed their past couple releases and I’m not sure I can bring much new insight to the table. Nate Gangelhoff and Nick … Read more
Banner Pilot's last album, Resignation Day earned them a lot of praise among punk fans. To me, I thought it was a very solid album but it didn't exactly stick out among the many great bands that are playing this style of punk right now. They're a good band, but I thought they were missing a few things before I … Read more
Mad Caddies SPB: Was the mic’ing of the horns in the studio different for Punk Rocksteady than on “traditional” Mad Caddies records? Mad Caddies: The mic and position always changes depending on the horn sound. Punk Rocksteady was mostly close miking. On older records the room mics played a bigger … Read more
Jesse Sendejas (Days N Daze) SPB: Is there a special technique you use to optimize the sound of your banjo when playing clubs? Sendejas: It's just me layering instruments in the recordings so we've only actually had a banjo player play with us live a handful of times, and usually … Read more
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