Blane Burnett releases LP, “Kant’s
Musical Theory” on Sept. 22
Like Tool frontman Maynard James
Keenan, Blane Burnett is from Ravenna, OH. They also share tastes in
music, with a willingness to explore dark themes and intricate
compositions. And now, Burnett is ready to join his Ohio brethren on
the national stage too.
“Kant’s Musical Theory,”
Burnett’s first LP release, showcases the artist’s multifaceted
approach to music. Elements of rock, industrial, jazz, and
electronica, all blended into a whole that’s far more than the sum
of its parts.
Written in the aftermath of a painful
breakup, “Kant’s Musical Theory” is a dark and moody, and a
perfect introduction for Burnett’s vision.
“I went through a break up that
started out as a beautiful relationship and ended poorly. I was
panicking and having a hard time finding where to invest my emotions,
and you can usually go two directions with that. After struggling
over where to vent, I manned up and picked up the broken pieces of my
heart and made a CD out of them. It was therapeutic and the whole
process took only a couple weeks because it was something I needed to
do every night. I needed to write and I needed to sing to feel
normal. Even if you don’t write music or poetry, love can make you
express yourself in different ways if you don’t hold it in and
torture yourself.”
Inspired by artists like Nine Inch
Nails, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and even Vivaldi, “Kant’s
Musical Theory” represents its diverse lineage perfectly. Piano and
string melodies twinkle in and out, across distorted guitar snarls
and thundering rhythms. The sparse lyrics give the music plenty of
room to move, and that’s a good thing – because the sonic
landscapes stretch out for miles, atmospheric and dripping with
emotion.
Lead track “Robots
Are Taking Over and It is Really Really Inconvenient and Frustrating”
kicks off the album with a bang, full of menacing synth beats and
disjointed vocals that you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley.
At the opposite end of the spectrum,
“Baptism” is an elegy sung from the bottom of a long dark well,
plaintive strings ring out against the hollow thump of a bass drum
that sounds as cold as a grave.
Although Burnett has been playing and
touring since the age of 14, “Kant’s Musical Theory” is his
first album. Luckily, it was worth the wait.
-L. Cutler
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Kant’s
Musical Theory” is distributed globally by MondoTunes
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and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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