Broncho release video for “Fantasy Boys”

Broncho release new video for their single "Fantasy Boys".

BRONCHO premiered the VHS-shot music video for their new single “Fantasy Boys” today. The clip features a fuzzed-out aura that aligns with the song’s romantic nostalgia. “Fantasy Boys” is the first single from BRONCHO’s forthcoming third album Double Vanity, due out May 27 on Dine Alone Records.

It makes sense then, that BRONCHO was born out of out a film project, its initial incarnation sparked when founder Ryan Lindsey was asked to create music “to set to an early 80s punk film.” “That’s all I knew about it,” he remembers, “they were looking for songs that touched this era. And songs kept coming to me and turned something on inside of me artistically.” Lindsey found himself in the midst of prolific run of songs and he liked the idea “of starting out there and seeing where it could go.”

BRONCHO has taken on a life of its own. The initial inspiration is still there, but now pushing far beyond the stiff confines of score. What began as an ode to ramshackle, high-energy early punk has become something deeper, weirder, and much more nuanced. The undercurrent of early 1980s punk is still there, but The Ramones pogo has been replaced more often by a kind of Love and Rockets-inspired, honeyed, cotton-mouthed drift.

Double Vanity is Lindsey and bandmates Ben King, Nathan Price and Penny Pitchlynn steadily moving ahead, transforming the raw angst of the first record into a sound decidedly more layered and complex. Tracks like “New Karma” or “Two Step” riff off the later explorations of punk, culling up refracted images of John Hughes prom nights, love songs echoing from a boombox held high. “Jenny Loves Jenae” and “Speed Demon” strut with a 80s-meets-50s swagger, discord transformed into a jagged, frenetic pop. “Señora Borealis” is all bad boy sneer – sensual, moody, with a sly and predatory swagger.

^ BRONCHO 2016 TOUR
* w/ Cage The Elephant
5/06: Deltaplex – Grand Rapids, MI*
5/07: Masonic Auditorium – Detroit, MI*
5/08: International Centre Arrow Hall – Mississauga, ON*
5/10: Bell Center – Montreal, QC*
5/11: Times Union Center – Albany, NY*
5/12: Mann Center – Philadelphia, PA*
5/15: Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD*
5/16: Central Park Summer Stage – New York, NY*
5/17: Central Park Summer Stage – New York, NY*
5/19: Ascend Amphitheatre – Nashville, TN*
5/20: Infinite Energy Arena – Atlanta, GA*
5/26: Rudyards – Houston, TX
5/27: Club Dada – Dallas, TX
5/28: Sidewinder – Austin, TX
6/02: Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ
6/03: Casbah – San Diego, CA
6/04: Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
6/05: Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
6/06: Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA
6/07: Independent – San Francisco, CA
6/09: Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
6/10: Chop Suey – Seattle, WA
6/11: Cobalt – Vancouver, BC
6/13: Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
6/14: Walnut Room – Denver, CO
6/16: 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN
6/17: Beat Kitchen – Chicago, IL
6/18: Wicker Park Green Music Festival – Chicago, IL
6/22: Great Scott – Boston, MA
6/26: Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
6/30: Outland – Springfield, MO

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