Exclusive album premiere of ‘Dream Dump’ by Neckbolt, out September 22, 2023 via Born Yesterday Records.

With members in Austin and Oklahoma City, Neckbolt conjures a psychedelic strain of noise-rock, belonging on the freakiest fringes of the genre. Guitarist Benjamin Krause states he is “uninterested in the masculine sound that can be associated with noise rock” and is instead “interested in exploring sounds associated with hypnagogic residue and full spectrums of emotion”. Their newest album is inspired entirely by dreams and dreaming.

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Neckbolt guitarist Benjamin Krause shares some words about their latest album.

We are calling ‘Dream Dump’ a psychedelic noise-rock record. It is uninterested in the masculine sound that can be associated with the noise-rock genre. The album is interested in exploring sounds associated with hypnagogic residue and full spectrums of emotion. This record has been a complete collaborative process across a few states, in multiple studios, over several months. This is a collection of five points of view. We see this project as some amorphous entity. Neckbolt is not as “finite” as most other bands, but rather an umbrella of understanding and free will.

‘Dream Dump’ was written and recorded over the course of nine months, from the end of 2021 to mid-2022. Everyone in the group is some level of “engineer,” so it was easy to track this wherever and whenever. The bulk of this record was recorded in living rooms and bedrooms and practice spaces when the ideas came up. We record something that we think is an idea and that ends up as the through line of the song. Every single song evolves in a way that is unexpected.

There is a ton of “ear candy” recorded with room mics or computer mics or phones. For example, we used a wooden pencil and the top of a scented candle as a placeholder for some of the auxiliary percussion on one song, to capture the rhythm that we would eventually track with real percussion. After a hundred rounds of sending this song back and forth, this ‘wood block’ sound ended up being ingrained in the song and we really didn’t want to mess with it. So that’s what you hear. This kind of stuff is all over the record.