ARTIST: Holy Smokes
TITLE: Talk to Your Kids About Gangs
LABEL: Skin Graft Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 57m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-11-07
RIP DATE: 2006-10-12
Track List
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1. The Big Picture 1:04
2. Too Many Wives (All You Need Is 3:30
Blood)
3. Pretty Much None Of Us Know 3:06
Anything
4. Missed Connections 1:42
5. Don't Squab On God's Tracks 2:56
6. Young Accent 4:46
7. Upsidedown 2:17
8. Quantum Leaper Of Los Angeles 7:18
County
9. No Dice 2:59
10. If You Pull It Out, You Better 2:24
Use It
11. Welcome To Say You're Welcome 5:06
12. Afternoon 1:58
13. I Wasn't Scared, He Couldn't 3:11
Feel His Hands
14. Universe's N.A.R.C. 6:25
15. Young Man's Blues 5:05
16. The Big Picture (Reprise) 3:15
Release Notes:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com
The group, spearheaded by drummer extraordinaire Zach Hill (Hella/The
Ladies/Team Sleep/Nervous Cop/Zach Hill and Mick Barr) and featuring Rob Crow of
Pinback/Three Mile Pilot, Carson McWhirter of the Advantage, Jonathan Hischke of
the Flying Luttenbachers, and co-conspirators Dan Elkan, Ian Hernandez, and J.R.
Thompson, will release Talk to Your Kids, their Skin Graft Records debut on
November 7.
Talk To Your Kids About Gangs" is the culmination of a recording process that
began in 2003, with the line-up of Zach Hill, Dan Elkan, Rob Crow, Carson
McWhirter, Jonathan Hischke, Ian Hernandez and J.R. Thompson. The group first
assembled for the album "Masculine Drugs", a soundtrack to a book penned by
founder Zach Hill and released by Suicide Squeeze Records. On their Skin Graft
debut, Holy Smokes arrive fully formed. Where the band's debut offered a
discordant free-jazz-noise-rock shock, "Talk To Your Kids About Gangs" emerges
as a harmonic tangle of pitches and thunder claps, that as they unravel, come
into focus as intelligible, infectious oddments of grooving sonance. Make no
mistake, these are songs: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synth, Drums, Samplers, Toys,
Piano, Keyboards, Trumpet and Gadgets - no bullshit. Holy Smokes have recorded a
masterfully drawn, spectral broadcast; a call to arms now and forever.