Nobunny: The Wascally Type

Nobunny loves you.

Seriously, the dude is a nutcase.

If his music is any indication he’s likely to spill the deepest, darkest, most perverse feelings in his head to you without as much as knowing your name.

Actually, come to think of it, he pretty much does just that on Love Visions — Nobunny’s 2008 full length effort. More after the jump.

The lo-fi rockabilly sound is familiar, and yet, the flair of punk bolsters images of a crowded bar in the middle of a desolate desert filled with bizarre faces you recognize but can’t quite remember where exactly from. Struggling with that dark, heavy feeling of doom and gloom amounting in your stomach that screams “Something is terribly awry here, we should go” you opt, for reasons beyond your comprehension, to face the inevitable unknown of weird.

Know what I mean?

Here’s a better explanation: If the handsome devils of King Khan and BBQ Show made passionate, boozy love to Bugs Bunny in the middle of a hurricane, the product of such an unholy union would be none other than Nobunny.

The music is chaotic, heartfelt, and catchy as all hell.

Jason Champlin, the face behind that menacing bunny mask, home recorded Love Visions to positive reviews a few years back. However, it’s not the record that makes him so intriguing, nor is it the reason his name keeps popping up in the latest and greatest “To Watch” lists; it’s the lampooning live show that’s cause so much notoriety. When sporting the infamous mask, Champlin has been known to strip down to his unmentionables (or worse, less), appear in coats made of garbage, and not to mention utilize fireworks, ball gags, and just about anything else that would strike a second glance from the adoring and often appalled audience types.

For the Ramones’ sound with a tad more menace, for the GG Allin style performance without GG Allin, Nobunny is the constant anomaly you’re looking for — a stumbling, surly, scarcely clad wabbit in a valley of uniformed sheep. That’s the appeal Champlin has created, a grotesque, live-action cartoon with grizzled groans pulling the audience through barrages of neurotic guitar riffs and Acme inspired antics.

Here, check out Nobunny on Chic-a-go-go