“I carry a crest of weight, chest dense with general doom. I awoke to find this as my vital state” begins Arone Dyer in “General Dome,” the title track off Buke and Gase’s tremendous new album. Released earlier this year to critical acclaim from NPR Music, The Wall Street Journal, Interview Magazine, AV Club, and Pitchfork, the album boasts a strong collection of genre-defying compositions. Director J.D. Molero portrays the title track’s sense of foreboding perfectly by manipulating and digitally distorting his 16mm footage into something truly unsettling. Watch the video, premiered on Pitchfork.TV today.
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PRAISE FOR GENERAL DOME
“Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez maneuver their homemade instruments through songs that rumble and clamor and grind with unmistakable electricity.” – NPR Music
“Tension and exuberance are the key ingredients in the elegant mess of jagged riffs and irresistible melodies that constitute General Dome (Brassland), the new album from the Brooklyn duo Buke and Gase.” – Interview Magazine
“On each of their releases to date, Buke and Gase have never been anything less than absolutely thrilling” – Pitchfork
“Buke and Gase is the duo Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez. I’m fairly certain that Arone is the woman and Aron is the man, although I may have that backward. But it doesn’t really matter because both are transfixing presences.” – New York Times’ The 6th Floor Blog
“Is it old-school progressive rock or newfangled art-pop? This head-spinning epic neatly splits the difference, wrapping a cool female voice in fractured noise to riveting effect.” – Mother Jones
“That they manage to wallop and whelm with so much power and so few instruments is impressive; their punk is genuine.” – SPIN
“If music is truly great, you shouldn’t need context to enjoy it, and General Dome absolutely passes that test.” – Stereogum