Wormburner

Based in Brooklyn, Wormburner has earned high praise from the rock music press including elite critic Robert Christgau. KEXP in Seattle has twice honored Wormburner with Song of the Day accolades and has hosted the band in KEXP’s live-in-the-studio performance space. Titled “Last of the Winter Light”, the band's new album finds Wormburner at the peak of their powers to-date. With narrative lyrics as vivid as you’ve come to expect from the Wormburner canon, these newest songs are populated by fringe figures, frozen and stranded, but somehow persevering in stark settings where the way forward is marked only by winter’s diminishing daylight. Wormburner has shared stages with The War on Drugs, Violent Femmes, The Hold Steady, The Walkmen, Old 97s, Dean Wareham, Deer Tick, Pansy Division, Tommy Keene, Cracker, and Camper van Beethoven (David Lowery produced Wormburner’s debut album). Legendary VJ Matt Pinfield once hosted Wormburner vocalist Hank Henry for an in-depth interview on MTV’s 120 Minutes. But the band remains an outlier. And yet despite limited commercial response to their work, Wormburner continues to release time-tested material that is filled with personality and heart. Mixes for the new album were handled by Phil Palazzolo (Okkervil River, New Pornographers, Neko Case, Ted Leo + Pharmacists). Wormburner recently expanded to a six-piece lineup, propelling their already-electrifying stage show to a decidedly higher level of execution.