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XI
Howling Hex
XI
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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Writing songs on the road and playing them, night after night, led them and us to this moment-defining statement: XI. A piece of every city can be heard on XI. In fact, spin XI on and you will find as well several states o...  more »

     
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All Artists: Howling Hex
Title: XI
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Drag City
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 8/28/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 781484034520, 0781484034520, 078148403452

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Writing songs on the road and playing them, night after night, led them and us to this moment-defining statement: XI. A piece of every city can be heard on XI. In fact, spin XI on and you will find as well several states of mind and sound in the funky-swift, breviloquent songs. Think of The Minutemen playing Blue Oyster Cult?s 'Godzilla' backwards (and underwater) to the post apocalyptic denizens of Hendrix?s '1983' - but think fast because another song is coming and there?s a riot going on. Guitar leads conversing with fat bass leads in front and behind you as saxophones wail before stripped down drums, the frenetic beating of the conga and other percussive instruments. This unnamable thing we know as rock is matched on XI with sharp-eyed lyricism and a multiplicity of vocal approaches.

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Can't stop listening
P. Brylow | milwaukee | 02/09/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"After listening to this one about ten times I was ready to form an opinion. IT ROCKS LIKE a MF!!!!!! I'm a huge neil hagerty fan, and the idea that he didn't write and sing all the songs on this disc scared the bejesus out of me, but he really has collected a great group. Like most previous albums featuring mister hagerty, it is a complete departure from all other material. its so different than 'nightclub version of the eternal' its mindblowing. This is a great unpredictable paradigm chainsawing man riding the head of this dragon into a constantly renewing wellspring of musical ingenuity."