Monday, April 19, 2010

Hella - Hold Your Horse Is

"Hold Your Horse Is" by Hella
Math Rock 2002 5 Rue Christine



Download Hold Your Horse Is

Hold your horse is as seamless and smooth as math rock can get, with great track to track transition.

Starts with blippy intro song "The D. Elkan" and jumps right into "Biblical Violence." Right at this point, you know exactly what to expect for the rest of the album, impossibly fast, equally as ridiculous, alternative meter drumming with angular math guitar. Just like Zach Hill's drumming, the album does not have one boring or resting point. The entire album is an assaulting pleasure on the ears of any ADD member of our generation.

Hella's songwriting approach seems like a foray into the mind of a distracted virtuoso musician, with theme after them coming and going. Sometimes brilliant themes that a normal musician would use for a whole song are introduced and thrown aside in thirty seconds time.

Hella is true talent mixed with a fun-loving, energetic approach. Sometimes after listening to a Hella song you even have to catch your breath.

For Listeners Of: Don Caballero, Lightning Bolt, Dilute, Maps and Atlases, ughgod, Tortoise, American Football, anything Zach Hill has ever touched

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