HUNCHES - 'EXIT DREAMS'

Formats

• ITR163 - LP

  759718516319

• ITR163CD - CD

  759718516326

Details

The Hunches are Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering ragged-edged rock 'n' roll with such devastating hidden melody, one is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades. Having released two previous full-lengths, The Hunches are back with Exit Dreams, their third (and possibly final) album that captures their fiery live form on wax once more. It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery and lo-fi freak-out fugginess, the perfect follow-up to Hobo Sunrise-a raging riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, and shot-to-shit synapses sizzling with amplified excess. Not that Exit Dreams is a one-dimensional thrill. There's much more to The Hunches than simple shock bombast. Over the course of twelve tracks, the outfit navigates styles known to explorers of underthe- radar rock, each time twisting the tried-and-true into forms bestfitting their singular focus. Few bands of the past decade can claim to be true garage band...the hunches take that genre and blast it into real scuzzville...one of the best live bands of recent times, elements of real danger thrive amongst these tunes, but also incredible nuggets (natch) of pop and melody...this will be one of the best lps of 2009, without a doubt, kaiser chiefs? blur? hold steady? YAWWWWWWWNNNNNN!!! invoking the the same demons as the Psychedelic Stooges, Electric Eels, Rocket From The Tombs, Velvets, Cro-Magnon, and conjuring a truly amazing wreck. so, farewell Hunches, you served us well....Hurtles between cleaver-wielding punk tantrums and droney Phil Spectoresque ballads..

Tracks

1. Actors
2. Ate My Teeth
3. Not Invited
4. Deaf Ambitions
5. From This Window
6. Carnival Debris
7. Street Sweeper
8. Your Sick Blooms
9. Pinwheel Spins
10. Fall Drive
11. Unraveling
12. Swim Hole

Press

Mojo, Uncut, reviews...might be too "real" for the NME, Plan B...but heres hoping....
?[The Hunches] blast extremely hard, post-core, thrash-noise chunklets
into The Cramps? platonic framework, add vocal weirdness,
strange raunch-ballad action, and really knuckle the whole mess into
a bloody pulp. They even cover the Electric Eels? ?Accident.? And the
result are one helluva beautiful wreck.? ?Mojo

Audio & Video

ROBERT POLLARD - 'THE CRAWLING DISTANCE'

Formats

• GBV04 - LP

  655035080413

• GBV04CD - CD

  655035080420

Details

For an extraordinarily creative and prolific artist, 2008 has been a particularly extraordinary, creative, and prolific year for Robert Pollard. And now to 2009: Hot on the heels of two terrific new albums, a stunning 140-page, fullcolor book of his collage art, great reviews, features in Vice, Flaunt, SPIN, and Entertainment Weekly, the launch of his own label, and his first live tour in two years, the man is on a roll... From the stately Krautrock chug of the album opener, "Faking My Harlequin," to the schizo-frenetic closing track, "Too Much Fun," with its structural U-turns piled on top of tempo shifts, The Crawling Distance is unlike any Pollard release yet. Comprised of ten tracks, most clocking in at three to four minutes and beyond, the album includes highlights like the gorgeous "It's Easy," a rare Pollard ballad (albeit a ballad with creepy, oddball imagery) and "The Butler Stands For All Of Us," a subtle, melancholy song that ranks among Pollard's best ever.

Tracks

1. Faking My Harlequin
2. Cave Zone
3. Red Cross Vegas Night
4. The Butler Stands for All of Us
5. It?s Easy
6. No Island
7. By Silence Be Destroyed
8. Imaginary Queen Ann
9. On Shortwave
10. Too Much Fun

Press

reviews tbc

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