The Builders and The Butchers (from the album Hell & High Water

The Builders and The Butchers (from the album Hell & High Water available on Badman Recording Co.)
The Builders and The Butchers flow smoothly into their recent release, Hell & High Water, floating in on opening cut “The River”, crying out for home over acoustic guitar chords before erupting in a demand on sharp-angled rhythms. The soft/hard arrangement is not a new song structure, though in the hands of The Builders and The Butchers the technique becomes less a gimmick, more a natural extension of the fury and force found in the band’s playing. Formed in Portland, Oregon in 2005, The Builders and The Butchers began life as buskers, playing house concerts and on the floor of venues, slowly adding a microphone, an amp, making their way up to the stage to one of the most dynamic live acts in the Pacific Northwest. The band does make every effort during performances to take themselves from the stage back to the floor. In a previous time, circa 2019,
The Builders and The Butchers came together for shows, writing, and tours whenever schedules allowed. The band members, all originally from Alaska. Making a living in Colorado brewing gin and whiskey for a living, and captaining a Malta-based ship based in Malta for some of the band members while the remaining members lived in Washington state and Portland, Oregon.  Then the calendar turned its pages to 202. a pandemic, wild fires and massive rioting Portland, Hell & High Water was a challenging, yet cathartic record to make. The Builders and The Butchers wrote Hell & High Water together as a band in a boat house in a marina.
 
The recent release, Hell & High Water is a musical travelogue when jangling guitars sound a start for “West Virginia”, the storyline giving an edge to the simple rhythms of the song, electric guitars adding bite. The pounding of the players opens “Montana” like the lightning strikes hitting ground in the tale as soft falls trod home in the tender melodies of “Nebraska”, the natural bombast of The Builders urging the song towards an exit. Hell & High Water close out on “Sonoran Highway Song”, the band quietly structuring the rise of the instrumentation towards for powerful exit from the album. Places on a map share topics on Hell & High Water as The Builders and The Butchers sing a song for the Northwest in “Stop the Rain”, walk dark streets for “Strangers Blood”, offer afterlife suggestions on “Name in the Sky”, and provide a Northwest sea shanty backing for the gripping storyline of “Hand in the Grave”.
 
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