Quiltary - Boys With Bottle Rockets (Revisited) [EP]

Quiltary was an active band from 2009-2012. These twinkle daddies got to share basements, VFWs, garages, Elks Lodges, backyards, colleges and the like with some of fourth wave emo’s biggest pillars. Originally comprised of singer/guitarist Russell Budd, bassist Nick Gianatiempo (Grasser) , and drummer Biff Swenson (Yawn Mower, Grasser, Bristler, Scumming, Prop House, etc.) – this trio began in Toms River, NJ.

Their debut EP was written and recorded in a week’s time, with each of the songs highlighting a Wes Anderson film. The Boys With Bottle Rockets EP was released on 9/13/2009, and now, 15 years later, the band’s original lineup reunited to revisit their debut release. It was engineered by the band’s multi-instrumentalist Nick Gianatiempo, and produced/mixed/mastered by Dana Why.

Quiltary celebrates a decade and a half of songs by fully realizing the potential they held when they were first created by their younger selves. They now present a crisp, lush, hi-fi older brother to the scrappier, messier, heavily-compressed original. The revisited versions feature the entire band performing vocals, the addition of piano throughout, and even some violin and cello by Jenn Fantaccione.