Burger Kingdom
Masters of reverb, delay, fuzz, loops, puns, and supreme hipness, Burger Kingdom has been churning out hazey lo-fi shoegaze since summer 2008 when the instrumental guitar comedy duo formerly known as Umbros morphed into the current guitar and drums setup. Seated behind a bass drum with “Burger Kingdom” scrawled in glowinthedark puff paint over the aged mark of “UMBROS” Stephen Howard provides the beastly beats while Erik Moore bounces before a massive pedal board that gives his guitar the perfect wash of distorted echo. Sitting atop of the mealstorm of drums, and guitar noise is Moore’s choir like falsetto, sang lovingly into his signature gold plated microphone.
In addition to original tunes, the fast-food royalty has an artillery of cover songs they occasionally pull out, like the Cranberries’ “Dreams” and Brian Eno’s “Needle in the Camels Eye” to “Oh My My” by Y&G’s very own Nonreturner. In 2009 they recorded and released the Hand of Gold Cassette, which features one side of originals and a b-side of covers all in the distinct style of Burger Kingdom.
Burger Kingdom was recently featured with their single Hand of Gold (available in cassette format on Lillerne Tape Club and Bifocal Tapes) and an exclusive cover on Yards & Gods Compilation Volume 2. And February 2010 sees the release of their debut full length Shugazi on Chomp Womp and Yards & Gods.