"Hermit Thrushes...walk the line between guitar-driven lo-fi and unruly noise rock." - Magnet Magazine
Joyful Noise Recordings (home to Hi Red Center and Grampall Jookabox) is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Hermit Thrushes second full-length Slight Fountain. Hermit Thrushes are a strange, ambitious power that only the east coast could have birthed. Cryptic lyrics in English and Greek sit comfortably overtop angular guitar parts, melodic bass lines and fine-tuned drumming. Standard rock instruments are supplemented by melodic doublings on trumpet, spare glockenspiel lines, noisy organ chords and drums filled with metal.
The Hermit Thrushes stage show has been the subject of controversy and frequently features cross-dressings, rainbow outfits, outrageous acrobatics and high kicks. They have shared the stage with notables Elf Power, Pattern Is Movement, Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors), The Mae Shi and many more. Hermit Thrushes also perform in the band Folklore, fronted by Jimmy Hughes of Elf Power and Yianni performs in Leopulde (Sounds Familyre Records).
The band's second album and first for Joyful Noise, entitled Slight Fountain, streamlines the band's chaotic sound into a cohesive batch of songs - successfully balancing their naive bedroom lo-fi with disjointed arrangements, noisy multi-instrumental blasts, and nasty pitch-shifts.
Tour Dates
06.04.09 - Castle Gay - Philadelphia, PA
06.14.09 - Iwaa Bina - Philadelphia, PA
06.20.09 - Castle Gay - Philadelphia, PA
06.26.09 - Bunk Space - Cincinnati, OH
06.27.09 - Garfield Artworks - Pittsburgh, PA
07.19.09 - Pilot Light - Knoxville, TN
07.21.09 - JJ's Bohemia - Chanttanooga, TN
07.22.09 - Buccaneer - Memphis, TN
08.26.09 - LEMP - St. Louis, MO
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