We Breed Champions

Royal Bangs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Audio Eagle
• ASIN: B0017M8Z7U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,308 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

"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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible band, September 3, 2010

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J. Bluhm "Artist in NYC" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Breed Champions (MP3 Download)

The "indie rock meets electronic nintendo and 70s rock" can start to sum up this band and album. "Let It Beep" (the following album to this one) is equally incredible, and if you like good, new, up-beat (very very very upbeat and involved) rock, get this.

They quickly became my favorite band, just this year. I can't wait for more from this Knoxville group. Very good guitar, keyboard, fun sounds. They're somewhere between MGMTs first album, and more in-your-face Beck.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD, May 16, 2008

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Joshua Stratton "strattonbrazil" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Breed Champions (Audio CD)

I love this band. I really think they have a really good diversity of songs. Their previous album, Julius Vampire Breath rocked. Greenwich Mean Time was very fun.

The Royal Bangs have literally engineered a musical mono-de-mono, if you will, featuring a great combination of keyboard, guitar, holy vocals, and fast drumming business. Every song on the album has good diversity. It's also nice to see band now a days that doesn't have a chorus that repeats over and over.