Frontier Ruckus: The Orion Songbook (Quite Scientific/QSR-010)

Matthew Milia is fleeing the city of Detroit for a mysterious place called Orion Town.  Not entirely fictional, the municipality of Orion, MI (pronounced 'OR-ee-un', not 'oh-RY-un') does exist just beyond the fingertips of the city's sprawl, but the more specific "Orion Town" is a creation woven together in Milia's own loquacious melodies.  In his words, it is a place of "overwhelming memory, young sexuality, guilt, and the slow disintegration of home and family".  

Alongside Milia a cast of players have come together to give life to this unique locale.   Whether it is due to the swelling saw and trumpet of Zachary Nichols , the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn , the soulful harmonies of Anna Burch , or the spidery banjo of David Jones , The Orion Songbook is a telling cacophony of sound which carries with it a sense of unmistakable immediacy and signals the arrival of a band who carry with them a name that speaks to a demand for greater spaces.... Frontier Ruckus .  

A natural follow-up and extension of the band's first EP I Am The Water You Are Pumping (2007), the album was mastered by Roger Seibel (Modest Mouse, Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill) and recorded/mixed by Michigan's own Jim Roll (McSweeney's, New West, Breathe Owl Breathe, Chris Bathgate) to help draw the beauty out of 14 hair-rising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships and frightening realizations about one's home. It is both uplifting and somber. It is fully introspective while still seeming carefree.  Its unwavering honesty demands your attention.

The band has already been getting airplay on XM Satellite Radio and will be performing several showcases at CMJ, as well as touring throughout the rest of the year.

"...the best band you haven't heard...I'm not sure If I can recall a voice as untreated and honest as Milia's ... ever. His is a voice whose timbre carries as much meaning as the words that come through it." - Real Detroit Weekly ' 2007 Best Folk Artist'

"The scrawled and scratched-out lyrics on the band's website, the quavering vocals, the images of dust and absence and longing -- Frontier Ruckus is tapping into all the elements..." - 3Hive

"If you can picture Jeff Mangum having his friends over and hanging out playing on the porch at a farmhouse, you'd be getting in the right direction." - YerBird

Websites:                                                                       Label Contact:
www.quitescientific.com/frontierruckus/                            Brian Peters
www.myspace.com/frontierruckus                                    brian@quitescientific.com

For more information please contact:
Brooke Black, 212.619.1360, Brooke@bighassle.com .