What sub-genra does Bunk Bed Junction cover?

 What sub-genra does Bunk Bed Junction cover?

A very good question I recieved on Instagram the other day. No way I would've been able to fit everything on my story without it looking clunky, so I figured I should write it here because it's easier. I most likely will post this as an actual entry on here ...

Short answer: 

Indie Rock, Punk Rock (sort of?), and Math Rock (and Post-Rock?)

Long answer:

Indie Rock

    The 'indie rock' part is self-explanatory. Bunk Bed Junction's music is not released by any mainstream record labels... such as NSR.  I think Mayday herself describes the band as an indie rock band as well. 

'Punk Rock'

    Since B2J is implied to be, like, a really new band 1 Rocketok EP young... I'm not sure they've had enough time to collectively pump out an EP or an album's worth of anti-establishment songs specifically about NSR. After all, they were totally on-board with the regime up until maybe an hour they got booted off. Unless Rocketok is the punk album they released in the midst of the revolution... hmm. 

    I could argue, though, that their whole beat-em-up direct action thing +  act of taking the NSRtists' songs & album covers and rock-ifying & B2J-ing all over the place is pretty 'anti-establishment and D.I.Y' in and of itself. Right?

    As for a certain individual, though... I think any gritty stripped-down, screamed-vocals punk rock 'sound' would come directly from Mayday herself... and the tens (maybe hundreds) of hardly-baked demos on analog tapes she'd recorded throughout her budding guitar-playing career. Nowadays the two musicians work together to make the demos more listenable.

     With that being said, I also think some of their music is significantly grittier than what we hear at the Lights Up audition, under the headcann-sumption (<- new noun I made) that B2J made Four Plus to be eeeeever-sooo-slightly more palatable to the judges. (Rockin' socks off is one thing, but they wouldn't wanna make the judges' heads explode... yet...)

Math Rock

    Now... on the other hand, I think the math rock aspect would be predominantly Zuke's influence. I mean, he's a drummer with a fascination for the avant-garde. I don't think it's above him whatsoever to try and incorporate some unusual rhythms and irregular time signatures in the music he and May create together. That, combined with math rock riffs -- generally short and continual -- would make for a reeeallly interesting subversion where the drums are the most invigorating part of a track... in which the guitar serves as its steady backbone. 

    I've always headcanoned that B2J would at some point release a math rock album that draws from this formula. Specifically, it was May's idea to create a not-so-subtle tribute to Zuke... often found 'overshadowed'... where she takes a step aside & gives him his time to play around center-stage.)

'Post-Rock'

    Lastly... post-rock. I wasn't sure if I should include this one but I thought I'd might was well. It's Also pretty avant-garde of a genre; I often see it mentioned alongside Math Rock. I won't go ahead and say that Mayday and Zuke make post-rock music often enough to be considered a Post-Rock band at all -- nor do I know enough about the genre in order to confidently talk about it -- but I *do* think it's something they'd have dabbled in eventually... maybe two or three songs in their discography... kind of evolving from the two known instrumental rock songs they've made so far (or three, counting the unused main theme.)

    Maybe they have more unreleased post-rock(-inspired) songs than they've put out. And by 'unreleased', I mean one-off, one-on-one experiments with timbre, composition, and texture to be recorded and promptly stored in the depths of whatever hard drive they keep the rest of their music on. A refresher when their usual workflow becomes too same-old-same-old.