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Hella
Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard (Dig)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Leaving the Arena of Anthropology: Movement 1 - Hella, Hill, Zach
2. I'm Quitting the Cult: Movement 2 - Hella, Hill, Zach
3. Half Hour Handshake: Movement 3 - Hella, Hill, Zach
4. Imaginary Friends: Movement 4 - Hella, Hill, Zach
5. Wildlife Takes the Loser by Night: Movement 5 - Hella, Hill, Zach
6. Black Metal Blues/Black Mold: Movement 6 - Hella, Hill, Zach
7. Nixed: Movement 7 - Hella, Hill, Zach
8. Earth's First Evening Jimi Hendrix-Less and Pissed: Movement 8 - Hella, Hill, Zach
9. Wish I Never Saw a White Man: Movement 9 - Hella, Hill, Zach
10. Baby in a Coma/Child of No Calendar: Movement 10 - Hella, Hill, Zach
11. Bodyguards Harmonic: Movement 11 - Hella, Hill, Zach
12. We Was Just Boys, Living in a Dead Ass German Shepard: Movement 12 - Hella, Hill, Zach
Track Listings (12) - Disc #2
1. Gold Mine, Gold Yours - Hella, Seim, Spencer
2. Song from Uncle - Hella, Seim, Spencer
3. W - Hella, Seim, Spencer
4. Try Dis... - Hella, Seim, Spencer
5. Drop Diva - Hella, Seim, Spencer
6. Famnail - Hella, Seim, Spencer
7. Dad for Song - Hella, Seim, Spencer
8. Mind Over Butter - Hella, Seim, Spencer
9. Home on the Arrange - Hella, Seim, Spencer
10. Trap Kit Whatever - Hella, Seim, Spencer
11. Proud of the Sun - Hella, Seim, Spencer
12. Chirpin Hard - Hella, Seim, Spencer

CD Details

All Artists: Hella
Title: Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard (Dig)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Release Date: 3/22/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 803238004426

Synopsis

Album Description

The third full-length from these Sacramento noise-rock heroes is a double album with drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim each claiming their own disc, performing an entire record on their own. Hill's "Church Gone Wild" delivers a dark and menacing onslaught of aggression and guts, while Seim's "Chirpin Hard" brings out a lighthearted but wholly technical and equally impressive spattering of pop and punk melded in the hot pot of the computer and video game age. This album re-establishes Hella as the kings of spastic noise and experimentalism.

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CD Reviews

Not Hella's best but for fans

J. Cacciola | USA | 04/18/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I thoroughly enjoy Chirpin Hard. It's definitely amazing; it combines all of Hella's LP and EP styles into one album. Church Gone Wild is a different story. It's really hard to get into this record; I'm not sure if it's the vocals or the arrangements. It's just a little too tedious for my tastes at times. Zach Hill should've made this cd a little more accessible. I understand the 'not sacrificing any artistic vision' idea, but I would've liked to hear some more of his amazing drumming that isn't drowned out by constant effects and vocals.

Try Hold Your Horse Is before this one."

An Album of Personalities

TingleFinger.com | Portland, OR | 09/03/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hella do an OutKast style concept on this release, having each member do his own full-length CD of music. Un-like OutKast featuring each other on their solo projects, Zach and Spencer separately play each and every instrument on their own creations.

With Spencer's Chirpin Hard, this concept reveals what an amazing musician and composer he is, even showing Zach up on the drums with tracks like the amazing dream space rockin' of, "Try Dis..." In Zach's Church Gone Wild CD, we find out that Zach really is from another f*!%ing planet! This epic hour long drone of noise and tripped out vocals sounds a lot like stuff off of Zach's true solo release, Zach Hill & The Holy Smokes. These albums put into black & white the two extremes that Spencer and Zach pull from to create what is Hella.

Together, these two opposite sounds of "listenable" poppy Nintendo space rock and "unlistenable" UFO noise explosions from outer space come together to make up the amazingly complex and yet somehow enjoyably "listenable," HELLA. More than an album of music, this is an album of personalities.

I wonder what would happen if you played these two CDs together at the same time, like some Flaming Lips Zaireeka action... Maybe then you'd get your beloved "Hold Your Horse Is" again. Let the music evolve!"