Burner

by Breadwinner

Burner cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: March 1994
  • Label: Merge
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 20:12

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiling their complete, highly obscure output of early-90s 7-inch singles, 'Burner' serves as the sole full-length document of the intensely technical Richmond trio. Breadwinner essentially invented the instrumental 'math rock' subgenre by aggressively stripping away vocals and standard verse-chorus structures in favor of dizzying, complex time signatures and metallic guitar dissonance. The remarkably precise, punishing recordings heavily influenced the entire subsequent math-rock and math-metal landscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, instrumental, noisy, dissonant, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Tourette's (1:50)
  2. Ditch (1:46)
  3. Kisses Men on the Mouth on the Mountain (2:08)
  4. " " (3:21)
  5. Prescott [Homecut] (2:33)
  6. Mac's Oranges (2:21)
  7. Knighton (2:27)
  8. Exploder (0:25)
  9. Turtlehead (3:16)

Credits

  • Breadwinner - primary artist
  • Robert Donne - bass
  • Chris Farmer - drums
  • Pen Rollings - guitar

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