Thursday, November 19th at The EARL
Speakeasy & Nobody’s Booking present…
Johnny Falloon (album release show), Muelas, Monsoon, Gunga
Doors at 7:30pm / $15 / 21+

Johnny Falloon consists of John Edmondson (vocals, lyrics), Joseph Clementi (drums), Matthew Greer (bass, production), Toni Hunlen (sampling/synthesizer), and Scott Kelley (saxophone).  Edmondson, Clementi and Greer first convened in late 2022 to perform several impromptu and off-the-cuff performances. The then trio continued in this fashion, creating and destroying their sound and performance expectations constantly, a process leaving only the group’s bones behind. The surviving skeleton, which now includes saxophone and a sampler, finds its strength between enigmatic and varied vocal delivery, inspired, frantic, and enduring percussion, inventive and unconventional bass lines, and beautiful, contorted saxophone licks, all being tied together by the ambient punishment of Toni’s sampler/synthesizer setup. 

For their second album, the Johnny Falloon project returns with Esoterrorism, a record infused with personal experience, fear, magic, and sweat. Singer and lyricist, John Edmonson, describes the record as  “hovering in a space between beauty, pain, meat, and the body’s relation to a growing digital world”. Recorded over four days outside of Athens, GA, the group’s frenetic approach to writing and performing yields a dense and excitingly varied 25 minute break from reality. The band’s sound grounds itself in the pulse of post-punk, but stretches into a more abrasive, noisier territory.