Album Notes

X-Ray Press elbows their way from the halls of Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts with an in-your-face traffic jam of post-hardcore aggression and prog rock experimentation. So much for subtlety. BRKN TYPE is a pressure cooker of frenetic guitars, punch-in-face drumming and abstract narratives, likely to be the most epic 15-minutes you will hear anytime soon. You can hear influences in Don Caballero, Chavez and Fugazi, but if you point too many fingers, you’d be missing the purpose completely. X-Ray Press is proud to release BRKN TYPE on Tellous Records, an activist label home to Degenerate Art Ensemble and Biography of Ferns. It is artist run with a share of profits going to arts, women and literacy groups. "Hell yeah. Jumping between jerky time signatures, with a jagged, frequently dissonant guitar opposite thundering bass-lines and fuzzy keyboard melodies, X-Ray Press got down old-skool Don Cab-style." - Seattlest.com "There are the songs your mind will get lost in and there are tracks such as (She Tried) To Be My Therapist which give you a taste of a simple, humorous rock song." -Chico Enterprise-Reporter "They’re a band to keep several eyes on." - Exoduster.com "X-Ray Press put out. Their live shows are always exciting, high energy and weirdly memorable. The music is an original mash of 90s-era math rock elements - hints of Slint, Him, June of 44 - that deliver a unique abstract noise jam spontaneity, informed by the old school jazz background of at least one of the artists in the group. Highly recommended." - SPIN Magazine