Volume 1 by BNQT

Volume 1, the debut from the indie supergroup BNQT (say it "banquet"), came out on Bella Union on 28 April 2017, and it's Midlake's Eric Pulido throwing a dinner party for his friends. He dreamed it up while touring Antiphon and rounded up Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Fran Healy of Travis and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, with Midlake's Jesse Chandler, Joey McClellan and McKenzie Smith as the house band. Pulido pitched it as a budget Traveling Wilburys.

The rules were simple and democratic: each frontman wrote and sang two songs. With everybody scattered around the globe, some flew in to Denton, Texas, and the rest sent their parts over the internet, yet the record hangs together as warm, easygoing guitar pop. Critics liked what they heard, with a Metacritic average of 78 from 14 reviews. John Grant, the Czars singer Pulido asked first, was the one who got away.

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