RESURRECTIONISTS ANNOUNCE DOUBLE EP RELEASE COMING OUT VIA SEISMIC WAVE ENTERTAINMENT.
The Milwaukee-based post-hardcore band is follows their CD-only extended play announcing the follow-up, coming out June 19 as the double EP release.
Release: June 19
Genres: punk-rock, math-rock, noise-rock.
Format: 2 EP, DR.
FFO: Unwound, Sebadoh, Sugar.
Label: Seismic Wave Entertainment
Resurrectionists Tracklist:
1. Ditch Gospel
2. Jokers and Their Jokes
3. Make a Place For Them
4. Hey Man
5. All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Run To
6. Let’s Play King
7. Here Lies the Bottle
8. My Year of Magical Thinking
“I joke sometimes that this is where we finally gave up on genre,” Joe Cannon says. Although Cannon laughs when he says this, there is some truth to the statement. Noisy Milwaukee rock group Resurrectionists’ latest release is tough to pinpoint. There are alt-country tracks, shoegazy punk songs, and things that resemble straight forward rock-and-roll. What the songs on Double EP – Anytime You Make A Place For Them/Ok, Let’s Play King have in common is an unsettling sense of foreboding, a tense and anxious mood that occasionally explodes with rage.
As Double EP’s unwieldy title suggests, the album is a mashup of two EPs. The first half, Anytime You Make A Place For Them, was originally released in May of 2025 while the second, Ok, Let’s Play King, is previously unreleased. And while the band may have a hard time describing these songs to you, there is a recognizable theme – a feeling of old folk songs brought back to life and infected with modern dread. This juxtaposition of sounds old and new is one of Resurrectionists signal strengths – like your great-grandfather’s favorite weird rock band tripped over a Sonic Youth record at The Monks house.
Anytime You Make A Place For Them is the heavier of the two EP’s, with elements of punk, shoegaze and noise-rock. There’s an uneasiness to the four songs – such as on “Jokers and Their Jokes,” where a jarring bass note insistently lands just off the beat before a tense chromatic guitar line explodes into a thrashing chorus that wouldn’t be out of place on a Steel Pole Bathtub record. Or on “Hey Man,” where Cannon’s vocals thrash and wail like an apocalyptic preacher while the band winds up into a minute-long cacophonous instrumental finale.
Ok, Let’s Play King contains a slight return to the band’s agit-Americana roots, featuring Cannon on banjo for half of the songs. These tracks start off deceptively quietly. For example, the opening track “All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Run To” reminds one of Resurrectionists early knack for splicing mellow breaks into driving rock and roll.
But then “Let’s Play King,” a ditty led by a swampy plucked banjo, abruptly explodes into mad feedback for one of the noisiest stretches of the album. And then just when you think all is flying apart, they fall back in line to finish the track with some gently sardonic banjo.
“Here Lies the Bottle,” is the most recognizable track on the album (it’s almost an actual country song!). It is an alcoholic’s ballad and the most plaintive of the eight songs, the title an inside joke born from misremembering “There Stands the Glass” by Webb Pierce. The final track, “My Year of Magical Thinking,” is another banjo-driven song that wears its dirty cowboy hat proudly.
These two four-song EPs taken together tell a story. Anytime You Make A Place For Them is suffused with dread – everything is bad, and it’s going to keep getting worse. Until the final track, that is, with the wild (literally) quixotic hope expressed in the repeated “Sancho are you ready / because I’m ready again.” Ok, Let’s Play King builds tentatively on that glimmer of hope, winding through the worries and difficulties of an unsettled age but ending with an invitation: “We go to ground / Let’s go to ground.”
It feels weird to think that either of these two sides ever existed without the other. Resurrectionists have — perhaps unintentionally — crafted a seamless collection of songs for our tumultuous times. If you find yourself worrying about the future but the sound of noisy guitars put you at ease, you’ll find much to love on Double EP. Pre-order Double EP coming out June 19 via Seismic Wave Entertainment .
BIO:
Resurrectionists rose from the ashes of the Milwaukee punk band WORK in 2018.
Originally Joe Cannon (guitar, vocals, banjo) and Jeff Brueggeman (bass) of WORK with Josh Barto (drums) and Gavin Hardy (pedal steel), Resurrectionists doubled down on the country gothic sounds that often threatened to break out of WORK’s punk cacophony. That incarnation lasted only long enough to play a few shows and put out a tape (What Comes In) before Gavin moved to upstate New York.
The band elected not to try to find another Milwaukee-based pedal steel player who loved weird rock music and was willing to play for vanishingly small amounts of money. So Gian Pogliano (guitars, keys, other noisy things) of the revered psych-garage group Brainbats joined in 2019.
