Holy Fuck

This band released my favourite album of 2007, simply entitled; "LP". So I didn't hear every album released last year, but still, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but always certain, and this is certainly my favourite!

Being somewhat involved in 'the music industry', I sometimes get pre-release albums or label sampler CDs sent to me. Thank you "Young Turks"! It's not often i'm caught out by music, but for whatever reason when a track called "Lovely Allen" popped onto my LCD car stereo display, I thought nothing of it; until maybe 40 seconds in. I was unashamedly caught out good style! A combination of my current mood / state-of-mind, and this wonderful stuff pouring out of my car stereo, caused a "hairs on the back of my neck and on my forearm to stand up" moment - love it! The album was sought out and purchased within 10 minutes of leaving my car. The rest of the album is much more intense than "Lovely Allen", which is no bad thing at all!

Holy Fuck's ethos revolves around "creating the equivalent of modern electronic music without actually using the techniques involved in creating modern electronic music: looping, splicing, programming, laptops and the like—of that". Preferring to make instruments from stuff in the trash/skips... true.

The listening experience in this album, is basically progressive rock, punk, avante-garde, dance, blips and clicks - binding a few bands together, they'd basically be "Godspeed You Black Emperor" with "Explosions in the Sky" with "Sigur Ros" with "Chemical Brothers" in some psychedelic dancey blip fuelled frenzy. The opening track, a live track "Super Inuit", has all of the commitment in delivery as though their lives were about to end / depended on it - phenomenal!

For reference Kev, i'm talking about that band I had on in the office today who "sound a bit like your on level 4 of that shitty 2 gear driving game that used to be in the Golden Goose", yes. Recreating such classic retro blip-pop sounds is just one string to their (found in a skip) bow on this album / throughout their repetoire.

http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck

The fact i've based an entire post and am gushing about a record, tells you, you too should own this record and not just listen to the above (sub-quality encoded Mp3s) myspace link now and again, this needs to be within distance of any of your music playing mediums, have it near.