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░ artist........ | The Heavy ░
title......... | Sons
label......... | BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
genre......... | Rock
rip date...... | 2019-05-16
retail date... | 2019-05-17
runtime....... | 34:44
tracks........ | 11
size.......... | 81.44MB
quality....... | 320kbps 44.1kHz
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01 > Heavy for You < 03:19
02 > The Thief < 03:06
03 > Better as One < 02:56
04 > Fire < 03:13
05 > Fighting for the Same Thing < 04:02
06 > Hurt Interlude < 01:08
07 > Put the Hurt on Me < 04:07
08 > Simple Things < 03:03
09 > A Whole Lot of Love < 02:48
10 > What Don't Kill You < 03:56
11 > Burn Bright < 03:06
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Whilst making their fourth album, The Heavy went through some dark
times. There was divorce, near break-ups and the hurdles of everyday
life. It all feeds into the Bath quartet's most exhilarating record
yet. "We attack all of these things," says frontman Kelvin Swaby, "and
the only way we know how to do that is by writing incredible music."
Hurt & The Merciless is the sound of a thrilling rock'n'roll band
fighting back. Swaby, guitarist Dan Taylor, bassist Spencer Page and
drummer Chris Ellul wanted the album to capture the powerful blasts of
their live show. That life-affirming spark of rock'n'roll when
anything feels possible is the feeling that sums up The Heavy's new
record. "You realise it's worth trying to capture that human energy in
the room rather than trying to generate it after-the-fact on a
computer," says Taylor. Their big breakthrough track "How You Like Me
Now?" is a prime example of The Heavy's ethos to date: a swaggering
groove built around a sample from a song they cherish. But after a
decade spent on the road watching tracks become muscular versions of
their recorded counterparts, they were determined to harness their
live power in the studio. "It was about trying to capture it at the
source," says Taylor. The Heavy formed in the mid-00s. Taylor and
Swaby clicked straight away when they met working in the Bath branch
of Gap. Swaby, an old-school crate-digger, noticed Taylor had a copy
of The Face magazine and the two started talking about music. They
found they had some common influences and began introducing one
another to the stuff neither had heard. Taylor was from a classic
rock'n'roll background and was enthralled by being introduced to the
world of hip-hop and sampling. A guitarist who had been in bands
growing up, all Taylor ever wanted was to work with someone who had a
brilliant voice. When he heard Swaby sing for the first time -
possibly whilst both were slightly inebriated in a club - he knew he'd
found his man. "I was like, 'he can sing!' It sounded real and
authentic." As soon as the pair heard what happened when they combined
Taylor's dirty riffs with Swaby's soulful voice, they sensed they were
onto something. "We knew that was our sound and something we could
develop," says Swaby. After attracting frenzied crowds to their Open
Mic sessions - they would put up posters around Bath advertising
themselves as The World's Fattest Twins and The World's Heaviest
Bastards - they realised they needed a proper band (and a proper name)
and Ellul and Page were recruited. "As soon as you put the four of us
in a room, it made so much sense it was gonna work," says Swaby. The
relationship between Taylor and Swaby is the key to understanding what
makes The Heavy tick. It's a classic songwriting partnership: the
self-assured, confident frontman taking it all in his stride and the
deep-thinking, analytical guitarist. "I don't think about practicing.
I just do it, it's within us," says Swaby. "I take it all seriously.
There's a pressure I put on myself. It has to be really fucking good
otherwise what's the point?" adds Taylor. If Hurt & The Merciless
marks a musical culmination for the quartet, a mesmeric blend of their
trademark rock'n'roll classicism and funk and soul grooves with added
sonic experimentation, it's also a personal marker in the band. Swaby,
especially, poured himself into the songs. Between their 2012 album
The Glorious Dead and the new record, Swaby has been married, divorced
and re-married. "For me, a lot of the songs are about personal
heartache and upset. I'd just been through a divorce so that's where I
was coming from," he says. "I'd gone down this route of thinking that
we needed to get married cos we had two children, and finding out
very, very quickly that it was not gonna work. There's a lot you can
draw from that emotional resolve. Songs like "What Happened To The
Love?", "Mean Old Man", "The Apology" were necessary, they needed to
be expelled from my system." The sweeping groove of "Since You Been
Gone" came to Swaby as he sat on a tour bus in America contemplating
his break-up. He imagined it as a Motown song until Taylor put some
dirty guitar on top. Other tracks, such as the spiky garage-rock
anthem "What Happened To The Love?", came together in a whirl of
adrenaline. "We banged it out! That's the best song for me because it
was effortless," says Taylor. The gospel-flecked "Goodbye Baby" was
inspired by Taylor's own personal crisis during a US tour, whilst the
Morricone-style glide of "Nobody's Hero" and thumping blues-rock of
"Slave To Your Love" are the guitarist's odes to fatherhood. The
mariachi-tinged "Miss California", meanwhile, is the story of a faded
beauty queen. The live feel of its recording set the tone for the rest
of the record. Evoking the bedroom recordings of their early days, the
album was self-produced and recorded close to home at The Distillery
near Bath. The Distillery's remote location, at the end of a deserted
track in the middle of nowhere, gave them a focus. Swaby explains:
"Living in Bath, you're allowed to lock yourselves away and no-one
will disturb you. You can get in your lab and work on something
individual. It doesn't feel like we're being influenced by any kind of
social group. Here we can be creative and experimental." As well as
sessions at The Distillery, they were also some recording stints in
the studio at the bottom of Ellul's garden. "Nobody's Hero" was
recorded there, and the drummer took on the job of much of the editing
and programming on the album. "Chris is an amazing musician, but he's
become an incredible engineer and producer too," says Taylor. "The
Heavy is a fragile beast but it's a fragile beast that the four of us
understand," says Swaby. "The band has always been about taking the
best part of our influences and making it work. We've become really
good alchemists to figure out exactly what we need." Everything
they've done over the past decade feels like it has been leading to
this point. They've mixed the lightning bolts of their live show with
a batch of their strongest songs yet. It's the best they've ever
sounded.
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