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Alt-Folk artist Bonzo joins Noise Alternative Movement with Queens of Surf Duet
"Saturday Afternoon" shows progression for Bonzo and Furious George
Vrassa City, Vrassa
September 3, 5318


Bonzo and Furious George release "Saturday Afternoon" on VDR as an Alt-Folk tribute to slackers

Bonzo, the Vrassa City underground alt-folk musician who traffics in acoustic guitar sets as often as he uses turn tables, samples, kazoos and psychedelic effects released his sophomore album along with his "partner in crime", conceptual musician Furious George. The album, called "Saturday Afternoon" is a true mess; but despite the chaos, a conceptual masterpiece and tribute to slackers shines. "We made this record about sitting around and being bored," said Bonzo. "It's essentially all inside jokes we have collected from I don't know how many afternoons just hanging out, watching bullsh-t movies or football, or smoking and drinking. But: it took us four months to make at VDR studios, so we're definitely not the slackers people think we are."

While Bonzo plays most of the instruments on the album, Furious George, who habitually refers to himself in the third person, added backing vocals, distortion, and percussion. He also engineered the entire record and is listed as co-producer with Bonzo. "Furious George to Bonzo is like peanut butter to chocolate," said George. "Like you don't think they should go together because Bonzo is a f--kin freak, but like he and Furious are bros of smoke, you feel me?" The record these two young Vrassans created ranges from acoustic hip hop, to Vascanian-esque raga, to a bizarre random noise hidden track.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCcCrPmyAQ]

In a lot of ways, "Saturday Afternoon" is a progression from Bonzo's debut album released two years ago "...and George", also on VDR, but this time it also reflected the growing popularity of the Noise Alternative Movement with several tracks that include distorted overdriven guitars, gritty basslines and atonal vocals. The record features a duet with ARC artists Queens of Surf called "Lovers Lane" which may actually be the most unexpectedly sweet track on the record[/url]. Queens of Surf have long held that they were fans of Bonzo, calling him and Furious George "impresarios" and noted that they looked forward to recording the duet. The entire band backed up Bonzo for the track, which included a dissonant cello solo, detuned guitars, and a deceptively simple rhythm pattern. Bonzo follows the relatively downtempo but oddly loud duet with the Grit-Adjacent Noise Alternative Hellscape of "Everyone's Out to Get You M-th- F-ck-r."

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9AfdzMw5w]

All in all, "Saturday Afternoon" is both reminiscent of the Alt-Folk movement from several centuries ago, without any of the hokiness and the Grit Movement with none of the Heroin vibe, while also marking its place as a current album with its forays into Noise Alternative, with full endorsement of the reigning Queens of the Movement. Bonzo and his collaborator Furious George have produced an unironic Slacker masterwork with this record.