Rx Bandits
RX Bandits are currently writing and are scheduled to record their next LP in early 2009.
RX Bandits are fearless. In a nervous era of record label focus groups, marketing strategies, and narrowly defined micro genres, it seems that the idea of the Transcendently Great Rock & Roll Band has been lost. Fortunately for us all, Southern California’s RX Bandits seem to have become exactly that. Featuring core members of the abstract freak-out collective The Sound of Animals Fighting, RX bandits are a five-limbed live beast that thrives on a collaborative spirit of constant musical evolution. Their latest release, 2006’s …And the Battle Begun is living proof that experimental music needn’t sound as if it were composed on calculators, that a band can be “prog” without the slightest hint of grandiosity, and that songs with advanced technical instrumentation and complex
Recorded in a live studio setting rarely heard on modern albums, …And the Battle Begun is a blisteringly cohesive organic opus of genre-leaping music, blending socially conscious lyrics with a soulful presentation that is propelled by a gravity-defying rhythm section. The band moves as one through difficult changes and improvisations, covering a vast territory of styles that ventures seamlessly from cataclysmic guitar riffs to reggae-inspired multi-layered grooves, always staying a step ahead of the listener. In keeping with Rx Bandit’s philosophy of following their own path, …And the Battle Begun was released to critical acclaim as a partnership between the band’s own label, Mash Down Babylon Records and Sargent House.
RX Bandits are fearless. In a nervous era of record label focus groups, marketing strategies, and narrowly defined micro genres, it seems that the idea of the Transcendently Great Rock & Roll Band has been lost. Fortunately for us all, Southern California’s RX Bandits seem to have become exactly that. Featuring core members of the abstract freak-out collective The Sound of Animals Fighting, RX bandits are a five-limbed live beast that thrives on a collaborative spirit of constant musical evolution. Their latest release, 2006’s …And the Battle Begun is living proof that experimental music needn’t sound as if it were composed on calculators, that a band can be “prog” without the slightest hint of grandiosity, and that songs with advanced technical instrumentation and complex
Recorded in a live studio setting rarely heard on modern albums, …And the Battle Begun is a blisteringly cohesive organic opus of genre-leaping music, blending socially conscious lyrics with a soulful presentation that is propelled by a gravity-defying rhythm section. The band moves as one through difficult changes and improvisations, covering a vast territory of styles that ventures seamlessly from cataclysmic guitar riffs to reggae-inspired multi-layered grooves, always staying a step ahead of the listener. In keeping with Rx Bandit’s philosophy of following their own path, …And the Battle Begun was released to critical acclaim as a partnership between the band’s own label, Mash Down Babylon Records and Sargent House.
