Big Walnuts Yonder is an indie rock album released in 2017 by the eponymous supergroup. Big Walnuts Yonder consists of bassist/vocalist Mike Watt from Minutemen, guitarist Nels Cline from Wilco, drummer Greg Saunier from Deerhoof, and guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart from Tera Melos.[7]

Big Walnuts Yonder
Studio album by Big Walnuts Yonder
Released	May 5, 2017[1]
Recorded	July 12, 2014 - July 14, 2014[2]
Studio	Studio G Brooklyn[2][3]
Genre	Indie rock
Length	37:25[2]
Label	Sargent House

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Spill	[5]
Exclaim!	[6]

Production

The album was recorded in three days during the summer of 2014 in Brooklyn, New York City,[8] live with very limited overdubs[9] and produced by Tony Maimone.[10] Months later vocals were added with Reinhart handling seven and Watt performing two.[9] Watt provided most of material by sharing rough versions of his compositions, or "launchpads" as he calls them,[1] played on bass.[11] On these tracks guitar was added after Watt's basslines, something that initially intimated Reinhart[12] but Cline was familiar with the method of composing having worked this way before with Watt on Contemplating the Engine Room.[12] Cline and Saunier each contributed a track of their own.[13]

Raymond Pettibon created the album art.[3]

Track listing

Reception

Under the Radar's' Dustin Krcatovich's compared it to a "modern take on classic Beefheart" and praised the musicians ability to "combine weirdo prog-level precision and classic SST freakcore abandon"[14] Spill's Ljubinko Zivkovic gave it three out of five stars and called it "a mixed bag with some stellar moments."[5] Justin Cober-Lake of Dusted praised the musicianship calling it "unsurprisingly unpredictable".[15] Scott A. Gray of Exclaim! found some of the tracks indulgent but ultimately found "the majority of Big Walnuts Yonder is fantastic."[6]

References

External links

• Big Walnuts Yonder on Bandcamp