Biography
Tonstartssbandht, the American psychedelic and noise-rock duo fronted by brothers Edwin and Andy White, surfaced in 2008 under the pronunciation Tahn-starts-bandit. Their approach fuses loop-driven pop with doomy experimental blues and nervy, fractured lo-fi indie rock shaped through improvisation. The pair quickly earned notice for their volatile live shows, issuing self-released recordings from the outset and stockpiling material until they signed with Mexican Summer, which issued their first official album Sorcerer in 2017; the label followed with the dizzying sophomore set Petunia in 2021.
Florida-raised siblings Edwin and Andy White, now based between Brooklyn and Montreal, formed the project after spending portions of their teenage years probing the fluid edges of improvisational noise rock in Orlando. Once independent in 2009 they self-released the albums An When, Dick Nights, and Maihama, soon establishing themselves in Montreal’s D.I.Y. experimental scene. Arbutus Records began releasing their music the next year, bringing the EP Now I Am Become in 2012. Overseas appeared in 2014 as a double-live LP that assembled eighty minutes drawn from more than twenty-five hours of 2013 European tour recordings. The 2017 transition to Mexican Summer yielded Sorcerer as the duo’s first proper full-length, while Petunia arrived three years later as a dynamic and focused effort—the first Tonstartssbandht album composed and recorded in one location over a succinct stretch.
Florida-raised siblings Edwin and Andy White, now based between Brooklyn and Montreal, formed the project after spending portions of their teenage years probing the fluid edges of improvisational noise rock in Orlando. Once independent in 2009 they self-released the albums An When, Dick Nights, and Maihama, soon establishing themselves in Montreal’s D.I.Y. experimental scene. Arbutus Records began releasing their music the next year, bringing the EP Now I Am Become in 2012. Overseas appeared in 2014 as a double-live LP that assembled eighty minutes drawn from more than twenty-five hours of 2013 European tour recordings. The 2017 transition to Mexican Summer yielded Sorcerer as the duo’s first proper full-length, while Petunia arrived three years later as a dynamic and focused effort—the first Tonstartssbandht album composed and recorded in one location over a succinct stretch.
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