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WEST037 | Chas. Mtn. - Hugs
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WEST037 | Chas. Mtn. - Hugs
- Chas.
Mtn. began in the late fall of 2003 one night in an overpriced,
non-soundproofed practice space in the notorious
"fens" district in the college ghetto of Boston.
Core members Gary War and Ned Egg (no college) began
recording bits and songs on the prestigious Tascam Porta
02 machine, and as baseball season ended the boys' sonic
explorations flourished to "this sounds o.k.; there
are no Eric Johnson solos filtering into the recordings
from next door" status. With influences rooted in
gangster rap, dub, films featuring Keith David, and
punk, Egg and War wanted to start from scratch. By
ignoring the feeble trends that plagued every other
recording combo of the time, the result was
an album of simple but honest hardcore-folk songs
with lyrical material ranging from the depression and
hopelessness of pan-capitalism to the contempt derived
from the manipulation of women: all from an optimistic and
loving perspective, of course. The Hugs album lay
idle until western vinyl decided that is wasn't shit, but
that it was in fact brilliant and that there was
nothing ever like it created in the world, ever. After a
year of separation, and with musical soulmates R-dills and
Zeus close by, War and Egg are reunited in the far less
detestable city of Cambridge and will record a follow
up album once they hustle a music space and acquire
instruments that stay in tune. There is hope for the
future.
- PRESS QUOTES:
- PRESS QUOTES:
- "an
album-length compendium of the sounds and styles of early twenty-first
century underground rock music." -
Prefix Magazine
- "What
we have here is a delirious mix of bent pop songs, with simple yet often
compelling presentations." -
Indieworkshop
- "[Hugs]
is and odd mix of beauty and beast. Most of it is beauty but tracks like
'Nice Mug' see Chas. Mtn.
turn beast and bring
avant-noise into the mix. "
-
-Uncommon
Folk
