Meltdown Rodeo are great friends Kym Register (Loamlands / Dunums / Midtown Dickens) / Sinclair Palmer (The Muslims / Dunums / DINO) / Joe Westerlund (Setting / Megafaun) and Matt Phillips (The Back Pocket) playing anthemic, rowdy, poignant indie americana rock in the queerest of ways. See them for a fun, soft, loud, vulnerable time.
Sometimes the process of mining for melody in words eviscerates the raconteur, gutting them like a tornado through a trailer park. Sometimes, “the truth” is a revival of shit rather forgotten, igniting a coward’s desire to look away. With “Meltdown Rodeo,” Kym Register foregoes such consolatory diversions for visceral scrutiny and unbroken stares. The result is a body of tunes that forages the American south, dislodging its ducked bullets from pearly white sand. - Shirlette Ammons
Press: “written to directly address North Carolina, the people in the Durham DIY scene, and the area's long history with LGBT communities and police violence, the themes Register… wrestle[s] with throughout—queerness, police violence, bigotry and general intolerance to those who refuse to adhere to any kind of binary—are poignant no matter where you live.” -- NOISEY
"It's a narrative-heavy — and proudly queer — record, channeling both the South's folksy past and the crunchy protest music of the modern Merge roster, sporting a genre-defying sound as courageous as the issues breached: institutionalized bigotry, body dysmorphia, the agonies of love and loss. " - AUTOSTRADDLE
"Even if you don’t know Register’s backstory, you can still hear that Sweet High Rise is a compelling, beautiful, and starkly political record." -Bitch Media "...a lush guitar pop sound that pulls from the late ’70s rock and country." - Brooklyn Vegan
