BIRDS OF MAYA - 'VOLUME ONE'

Formats

• HOLY12288 - LP

  N/A

Details

it has been said that volume one is possibly the best rock release to come out of philadelphia ever. while low on recording budget, attitude, and pretension, birds of maya is high on stolen riffs and an energetic execution seldom seen outside of a sunday ruling by seamus mccaffery. whether they are mangling riffs or stepping way out for fried boogie solos, birds of maya oozes a dark, chunky sludge with elements from all the colors of the classic rock rainbow. do they really sound like "a gg allin demo played through a megaphone?" it's a fair description and it's certainly colorful, but it leaves out an awful lot. they are loud and they are chaotic, but they have way more groove than gg could have ever imagined. debut lp from philly power-trio, lo-fi rock recalling '60s/'70s classics like cream, blue cheer, hendrix, black sabbath, the stooges, etc.

Tracks

1. KILLER IN THE SNOW
2. TRAVELER
3. HIGH UP ON THE HILL
4. BLACK FOOT KIN
5. ANCIENT WITCHES RISE
6. SIX
7. SLEEPWALKER

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Audio & Video

HEXLOVE - 'KNEW ABLOOM (LIFE?S HOOD)'

Formats

• HM70182 - CD

  655035618227

Details

southern illinois native zac nelson is a drummer, and knowing that you should also know that he is a madman. one of the few known photos of him looks like a cult leader or someone who might know a thing or two about eating diamonds. while he is a current member of who's your favorite son god and prints, hexlove is nelson all by himself going nuts. nelson's enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of keith moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels dennis wilson, neil michael haggerty, and post-vision creation newsun boredoms, and combine it all and play it off like it was mixed by tod dockstader. no one is ever going to think you should listen to knew abloom on nitrous because it already sounds like it's on nitrous. simply put, hexlove is unlike anything and sounds exactly like right now should solo cd by multi-instrumentalist zac nelson, current member of who's your favorite son god and prints

Tracks

1. BRUSHED WITH CABIN
2. HOLDS HER, SEES CRANE
3. SMACK OF DAWN (MOURNING SLAPS A SON SILLY)
4. BLUE IS BLOOD
5. PATIENT AS SUGAR
6. MOUN KIDS ZUM
7. PEPPER HURTS
8. GRIZZLY BEAR WITH ME
9. SOMETIMES WE ALWAYS DON?T KNOW
10. EXCEPTING ETERNITY IN THE RELATIONSHIP
11. EXCEPTING ETERNITY IN THE STRETCH

Press

HOLY MOUNTAIN SHOULD KEEP ITS HIT RATE HIGH THIS YEAR, AND THIS IS NO SLACKER.

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