Hot off the heels of their previous quintuple-platinum release, The Kneeless Budongus is ready to melt your face clean off with their latest, “The Extra Hour of Sleep is Killing Me.” In their brilliant new album, the self-styled kings of experimental post-skapunkafunkatronica weave ever-the-more mind-blowing musical endeavors, maintaining their hard-edged instrumentals and occasional verbose lyrical wordplay.
The Stranger calls “The Extra Hour of Sleep is Killing Me” a “musical tour-de-force. I laughed, I gasped, I puked my guts out after having a long cry on the shoulder of a man I barely knew.” The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says “my mind was dissolved into a number of tiny, fragmented pieces, laden with gamma-chronaton radiation. I ate them, despite the risk of cancer.” The Northstar Weekly asks “does anyone even read this publication?” and the Seattle Weekly responds “I know, right?”
Of particular note in the band’s latest are songs from the “We Still Don’t Have A Name For This Place” (or, simply “anftp”) arc. These tracks were produced and performed in collaboration with the recently-reformed band that literally put experimental neo-progressive psychedelic rock on the map; Pogo Ninja. Interspersed throughout the album, the arc serves the dual purpose of both providing a stable platform upon which the other songs rest, and blowing the listener’s very mind.
“The Extra Hour of Sleep is Killing Me” is currently available exclusively in .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .alac, greater-than-CD-quality .wav, multi-track audio, and .odf formats, all for free, via the band’s website. Those rooted in the physical, fear not, a CD / vinyl release will be out later this summer.
1. anftp I: Man Up, Call for the Pizza Yourself
2. You’re Too Slooooow!
3. Good Job, Peeg (feat. MC Farrar)
4. anftp II: I Basically Put All the Money You Give Me in a Big Pile
5. The Prince of Frost And The Cherry Blossom Emperor
6. Steam-Powered Pneumatic Penis (feat. S. Spwn)
7. They Must Not Have Heard Me Say “I’ll Take It.”
8. anftp III: Joke Subtitling Services
9. ELEVEN O’CLOCK!! KRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYL!!! (feat. DJ Wendel in the mix)
10. Edward James Olmos Takes A Handful of Grainy Earth, Holds It To A Geiger Counter, And Stares Dejectedly At The Camera (I Feel So Empty) (feat. Gregor Q.)
11. anftp IV: Highway Star (cover)
12. The Extra Hour of Sleep is Killing Me
13. When In Doubt, Eat (feat. DJ Useli)
14. anftp V: We’re Out of Food Again, Aren’t We, You Damn Robot?
15. anftp final: Shit, Somone Knocked Gold Off Their Mongoose and Now They Are Coming For Us