The_Howling_Hex-XI-(DC345)-CD-2007-iPC

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2008-02-17

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    ▓█▓▓█      Artist.....[ The Howling Hex                        ▀████▄█▓
     ██▓▀      Album......[ XI                                        ▀▓██
   ▄ █▓█  █    Label......[ Drag City                               █  █▓█ ▄
   █▒█▓█▄▀     Catalog #..[ DC345                                    ▀▄█▓█▒█
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  ▓█▀  ▀▀█▓█▒  Source.....[ CD                                    ▒█▓█▀▀  ▀█▓
  ▓█▄ ▀▄  ██▓  Genre......[ Rock                                  ▓██  ▄▀ ▄█▓
   ▓▓█▓▀   ██  Language...[ English                               ██   ▀▓█▓▓
     ▀  ▄████  Rip Date...[ 2007-10-06                            ████▄  ▀
     ▄  ▀ ▓█▓  Store Date.[ 2007-08-28                            ▓█▓ ▀  ▄
    █▀▀  ▄▓█▀  Rip Tool...[ EAC                                   ▀█▓▄  ▀▀█
    ▓█▄████▀   Encoder....[ LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new                ▀████▄█▓
     ▀█▓▀      Quality....[ 162 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo        ▀▓█▀
   ▄ █▓█▄▓█▓   Url........[ http://www.dragcity.com                ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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           █▓  01 Keychains                                 2:36  ▓█
           █▓  02 Fifth Dimensional Johnny B. Goode         3:11  ▓█
           █▓  03 Martyr Lectures Comedian                  2:20  ▓█
           █▓  04 Live Wire                                 2:19  ▓█
           █▓  05 Dr. Slaughter                             2:43  ▓█
           █▓  06 Let Fridays Decide                        1:45  ▓█
           █▓  07 Lines In The Sky                          3:36  ▓█
           █▓  08 Save/Spend                                2:43  ▓█
           █▓  09 Ambulance Across The Street               2:23  ▓█
           █▓  10 Everybodys Doing It                       2:42  ▓█
           █▓  11 The 88                                    4:16  ▓█
           █▓  12 Theme                                     2:24  ▓█
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         █░█    Neil Michael Hagerty's long, tortuous career has   █░█
         █░█    laid waste to a lot of opening paragraphs,         █░█
         █░█    practically lobotomizing the reviewer before       █░█
         █░█    he/she can begin tackling his equally              █░█
         █░█    brain-melting music. I would even go so far as to  █░█
         █░█    suspect this Renaissance dude of fattening up his  █░█
         █░█    rΘsumΘ intentionally, as a misdirect masking his   █░█
         █░█    ambitious yet sloppy music. Considering his two    █░█
         █░█    biggest inspirational sources-- classic and noise  █░█
         █░█    rock-- this equivocation makes sense: On the       █░█
         █░█    surface, Hagerty and his most recent band Howling  █░█
         █░█    Hex qualify as your standard meat'n'potatoes rock  █░█
         █░█    outfit, yet the group takes great pains in         █░█
         █░█    shrouding their potentially accessible sound with  █░█
         █░█    disjointed songwriting, arcane lyrics, and other   █░█
         █░█    artistic fuckery. And oh yeah, he was in Pussy     █░█
         █░█    Galore, Royal Trux, and has written two books as   █░█
         █░█    well as an obsessive Howling Hex blog, among       █░█
         █░█    other pursuits.                                    █░█
         █░█                                                       █░█
         █░█    2006's Nightclub Version of the Eternal marked an  █░█
         █░█    unprecedented level of button-pushing for the      █░█
         █░█    Hex, as a string of seven minute-plus              █░█
         █░█    masturbatory jams frustrated even the staunchest   █░█
         █░█    defenders of the band's idiosyncrasies.            █░█
         █░█    Thankfully, XI's slicked-back tracks sound like    █░█
         █░█    reparations, Hagerty hedging his postmodern tics   █░█
         █░█    in favor of three-minute, riff-based rawk that     █░█
         █░█    reminds us this is the same rock zealot who        █░█
         █░█    convinced Pussy Galore to re-record Exile on Main  █░█
         █░█    St. back in the day. Hell, at some points, you     █░█
         █░█    might confuse this for a Spoon record. The meaty   █░█
         █░█    guitar/sax/horn trifecta on straightforward,       █░█
         █░█    swaggering pop rockers like "Ambulance Across the  █░█
         █░█    Street" and "Everybody's Doing It" avoids any      █░█
         █░█    protracted jams, the lyrics cogent enough to       █░█
         █░█    generate both pathos and a storyline in the        █░█
         █░█    latter: "Broken heart, broken home/ Now you're     █░█
         █░█    lyin' there all alone,/ In an ambulance across     █░█
         █░█    the street."                                       █░█
         █░█                                                       █░█
         █░█    Unfortunately, Hagerty can't go completely cold    █░█
         █░█    turkey from the jam band stuff. Even with shorter  █░█
         █░█    songs, the ideas still remain fairly loose and     █░█
         █░█    unfocused, not to mention the spoken word          █░█
         █░█    diarrhea of "Let Fridays Decide", a pretentious    █░█
         █░█    intermission that undermines much of the album's   █░█
         █░█    unexpected edibility. Considering the punch of     █░█
         █░█    dirtier, nastier garage rock nuggets like "Live    █░█
         █░█    Wire" and "Theme", I wish Hagerty sought and       █░█
         █░█    destroyed more Stooge-isms on this record. Still,  █░█
         █░█    the consistent Fogerty shuffles here make XI the   █░█
         █░█    most worthwhile Hex release since 2005's           █░█
         █░█    All-Night Fox, and a nice little                   █░█
         █░█    twilight-of-career album-- assuming the sun will   █░█
         █░█    ever set on Hagerty's rampaging career.            █░█
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         █░█    http://www.myspace.com/thehowlinghex               █░█
         █░█    http://www.dragcity.com                            █░█
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