The Builders and The Butchers co-promotion with Portland’s Bladen County Records. National PR send-out for self titled debut. We are honored for this to be World Atlas’ introduction to the world. Expect great things to follow. In the meantime, heres what Brandon Seifert of the Williamette Week had to say about his first time catching The Builders and The Butchers command a stage:

I first saw the Builders and the Butchers at Mississippi Pizza in September. They shunned the stage and set up in the middle of the room, playing without microphones or amps, hammering on their guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. to make up for it. Frontman Ryan Sollee shouted rather than using a microphone. When they started that night in September, the audience was totally taken aback. “What the fuck is this?” they seemed to ask. Before the first song ended, that’d turned into “This is awesome!” You could see the same process of discovery on the faces of the band’s new live-attendees at the Towne Lounge. And the people who’d seen the band before were already hyped.

The Builders’ music is influenced by blues and gospel, but it’s solid, pared-down and rocking. They’ve started playing to large enough crowds that they need amps and mics to be heard, but their all-acoustic approach is part of a simplicity they continue to keep. Sollee (the frontman) still puts his guitar down so he can run around and sing through an old bullhorn, and there are two drummers, each focusing on a single drum—Paul Seeley on the bass drum and Ray Rude playing a snare with two brush sticks and shaking a tambourine attached to his ankle.