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01. HOOKWORMS - Medicine Cabinet
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02. HOOKWORMS - Teen Dreams
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03. HOOKWORMS - I Have Some Business Out West
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04. HOOKWORMS - Resolution
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05. HOOKWORMS - Form & Function
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06. HOOKWORMS - Deu
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07. HOOKWORMS - The Correspondent
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ARTIST
HOOKWORMS
TITLE
Hookworms
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
GRINGO RECORDS
CATALOG #
WAAT 059CD
WAAT 059CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/18/2016
Expanded reissue of
Hookworms
' 2011 debut, first released as a limited cassette, reissued on vinyl (FAUX 015LP), and now available on CD for the first time. This edition follows the band's acclaimed albums
Pearl Mystic
(Gringo Records, 2013) and
The Hum
(Domino sublabel Weird World Record Co., 2014).
Hookworms
documents the Leeds five-piece's starting point while proving that they've never wavered in their undeniable character, even as everything around them has changed. "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist
MB
recalls. "
MJ
having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with
Sun Araw
just as we were finishing the EP and
Cameron Stallones
enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings -- then subsequently released it on cassette." Hookworms have since evolved into a mighty beast, able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmische (as they did when they headlined the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, and when they supported fuzzy legends
Slowdive
during their 2014 comeback).
Hookworms
showcases many of the traits for which the band has become known -- the strutting bass and four-note repetition of "Teen Dreams" is pure
Modern Lovers
, mining the group's '60s garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. Another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of "I Have Some Business Out West," which crackles with the energy of an approaching storm. "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired." This edition also presents rare early recordings, including the initial drone-heavy version of "Form and Function," which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers
Kogumaza
, plus the swaggering rumbles of "The Correspondent," which appeared on Sonic Cathedral's 2013
Psych For Sore Eyes
compilation. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound of
Pearl Mystic
, while the latter is a wonderful outlier -- which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched toward the horizon.
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