Urban Outfielders - Out Of This World
Idaho’s pop-punk band the Urban Outfielders will drop their new EP, Out Of This World, April 19, on Hidden Home Records.
Urban Outfielders
Self-described as the “best baseball team in the whole wide world,” the band is made up of Deano Barengrill (vocals, bass), Chucky Parrish (guitar, vocals), and Dicky Rivers (drums, vocals). Based in Boise, the Urban Outfielders are part of a flourishing subculture called baseball punx, which combines sports and punk rock into a distinctive genre.
Encompassing four-tracks about chewing gum, baseball love, Ichiro Suzuki, and extraterrestrial intervention, the band’s sound is what they call “grand slam punk rock.”
The first track on the EP is “Big League Chew,” opening on tight dirty guitars surging with ferocious energy and a slapping groove. A searing guitar solo delivers incandescent hues on fuzzy tones, giving the tune a walloping kick in the harmonic butt.
Slick licks on the axe infuse the harmonics with scorching wall-of-sound impetus, while the rhythm travels at a grand pulverizing pace.
“Do It With You” rides growling guitars full of muscular dark colors and beau coup heft. On the chorus the guitars take on shimmering metallic flavors. Nasal vocals deliver just the right amount of punk snarl and impertinence, as the driving rhythm pushes relentlessly forward. I love the nuclear actinic pigments of the guitar solo, wicked and nasty.
The third track, “Where Did He Go (Tito),” opens on filtered vocals and remote guitar flavors that explode on the drums into a rampaging pop-punk melody rife with fierce momentum topped by delicious vocal harmonies backed by a blistering guitar.
The last track, a tune about the MLB’s Japanese baseball star Ichiro Suzuki, features a rumbling, roaring intro that rockets off into a wild pop-punk melody with compact and hard-hitting drums. Slick licks on the axe infuse the harmonics with scorching wall-of-sound impetus, while the rhythm travels at a grand pulverizing pace. The sonic textures on this track resemble coarse sandpaper, deliciously raspy and crusty as all get-out.
On Out Of This World, the Urban Outfielders knock it out of the park with their raw, edgy sound crowned with rough, tough vocals.
