Monday, January 19, 2009

A band a day: Hurt

As most of you are aware, I like hard rock music (I mean, duh, I made this blog). I get a lot of comments from some friends and family members that hard rock is just stringing notes together with incoherent screaming. That may be true for some of the bands that I like, but not all. 

Take Hurt for example.

Their music can be heavy, but the intensity of their music can also be expressed with a cello.

Hurt is:
J. Loren Wince (Vocals, Cello)
Paul Spatola (Guitar)
Rek Mohr (Bass)
Evan Johns (Drums)

I'd seen them on March 20th, 2008 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City headlining a show with Tunnels to Holland and Leo (the band that Rek Mohr had been playing for before being recruited for Hurt).

Members representing Capitol Records had been in attendance. The show was great, but a little awkward to say the least.

Hurt had moderate success with Volume I, but hadn't been doing as well with Volume II. While "Ten Ton Brick" was a top 10 Active Rock hit, Loded barely made a blip on the radar.

A little after the tour was over, it was announced that they'd left Capitol Records. 

You would think that after a band leaves a major record deal that their life span essentially ends. On the contrary, the only people that were hurt were Capitol Records.

They went onto Amusement Recordings, who released the Re-Consummation (a retrospective of older recordings, some of which wound up on their major label releases).

On April 7th, they will be waving Goodbye to the Machine. The album, produced by Joseph DeMaio, is in reference to them leaving Capitol Records. It is also in reference to an approach that says goodbye to computers. The music that will be heard throughout the album is going to be largely recorded in analog. 

It will feature the lead single "Wars", "Fighting Tao" (which had been performed live towards the end of last year's touring), and "World Ain't Right" which will feature vocals from Seether frontman Shaun Morgan.

Their live performances are incredible and something to be admired.

Here are performances of the songs "Danse Russe" and "Fighting Tao".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If you'd like to conduct an interview with Hurt or review Say Goodbye to the Machine for your blog, please contact me at alissa@myrocketscience.com