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Lucy Grey (album version)

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Released: Nov 2, 2010

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Lucy Grey (album version)
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Weather With You
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Songs That You Love
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Miss Daisy
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Fever Song
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General Info

Genre: Psychedelic / Rock / Surf
Location Chicago, Illinois, Un
Profile Views: 76520
Last Login: 7/16/2011
Member Since 8/2/2005
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmhvbGx1cy5uZXQ=
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
Hollus is a band that thrives on the next step. The group stayed busy traveling throughout 2009. While dotting across the Midwest performing their garage blues anthems from “Joker And The Queen” (2009), Hollus had begun solidifying the sound that would become their heady follow-up. Composing the songs on the road and solidifying them in their home studio, Singer Jamison Acker and Guitarist Michael Lux’s influences joined to forge a work with themes of fate, hope, and mystery. Acker describes it as “The kind of songs we’ve always wanted to write.” Never losing the DIY spirit, Hollus recruited their own Colin Mulhern (bass) to run the boards at Chicago’s Rax Trax Studio. In March, the group released an advanced split single for “Lucy Grey” and “Songs That You Love” at their Lincoln Hall show with Company of Thieves, and followed it up with a hazy psychedelic summer music video for the former. Hollus is poised to release a new collection of songs, HOLLUS/PART ONE on November 2nd, with PART TWO to follow in February 2011. The group also plans on releasing as many as 4 more music videos in this time, and continuing to turn people on to its universal spin on ambient, powerful pop music. Instrumentation * Jamison Acker: vocals * Michael Lux: guitars, vocals * Mario Coletta: Drums * Colin Mulhern: Bass> " Watching Hollus perform their bluesy,.. all-American rock felt like a welcome time warp”.. ..~Sasha Geffen/Performer Magazine.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .."...one begins to understand that Hollus is not a city.. slicker band trying to make it big in the urban jungle... Instead, they are rural dreamers, allowing the imprint of .. their lush, created, environments made up of river beds, .. foreign fogs and other assorted portraits of a true American .. landscape to shape their sound. Blues inflected rock music .. that dynamically moves between acoustic and electric guitars;.. blends the real with the surreal; comes together, wrapping us .. in a cocoon of heartache. This is Hollus." .. .. "Top 5 Bands You Should Be Listening To".. ..~Jason Petros/Chicago Independent Music Review...... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."Hollus produces the kind of music you can listen to and light.. unbranded gaspers in a gravel lot with flames consuming the.. front fenders of your coupe. Their sound has the energetic.. intensity of 1960s psychedelia with the hard edge of rock that.. would feel right at home on record and MP3 players alike... ..~Diego Baez/ Heave Media.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."The music on The Joker And The Queen not only reveals.. the work of band firing on all cylinders, but a group of musicians.. who sound like they’ve been furiously dedicated to honing their.. songwriting craft just to get to this very point...This disc could.. very well be this reviewer’s indie sleeper pick of the year... ..~Ryan Sparks/ Classic Rock Revisited.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."There's a definitely down south quality to the music,.. but it's more Arc Angels Texas blues rock than Skynyrd.. southern swamp. They do give us some more sombre.. numbers, like the weeping title track, "The River"[and].. some Jayhawk-style harmonies on "Krista Lynn", which.. help make that song a standout.".. ..~Snobs Music.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."Hollus vocalist Jamison Acker describes the band’s goal for.. its latest release, Joker And The Queen, as “to make timeless tunes.. that sounded good in our living rooms,” which translates into evoking.. Led Zeppelin III and early Rod Stewart. Acker’s rough vocals and Michael.. Lux's guitars guarantee success, particularly on the acoustic-based “Horseman”.. and the hard-rock stomp of “Fever Song.” .. ..~Terrence Flamm/Illinois Entertainer.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."...It's as gritty as some of the darkest Rock n' Roll.. music produced during the 60's-70's, yet didn't come.. across as something re-produced. I still haven't put my.. finger on what it is, but it's there and a feat only .. accomplished by a few bands in the present day. Hollus .. isn't trying to be anything else, they are simply Hollus,.. a rich, organic, group of fellas, and one lady, offering a.. batch of songs that represent the real world. People are .. turning heads and taking a peek at Hollus, if nothing more .. but to see a band doing it like they used to. But if they .. start listening, they'll realize Hollus is an undeniable musical .. force, taking the over-produced world of music that corrupts .. sound today and giving music fiends around Chicago an .. exhilarating experience for their ears... ..~Brian Holl/ Secondwavemusic.com.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .. .."Joker and the Queen, a grab bag of roots-rock.. energy, Americana storytelling and Southern-blues heart... ..~The Isthmus.... .... ***************************************************** .. .. .. .."While 'Joker and the Queen' isn’t the juggernaut Good Sons was,.. it’s both the widest and deepest material [Hollus] has done yet... There are no hang-ups for obligatory guitar tomfoolery,.. there’s a greater willingness to show soft sides and there’s.. less self consciousness to the band now...".. ..~Paul Snyder/writer for Vital Source Magazine....
Members
..Jamison Acker.. - Vox, ..Michael Lux.. - Git, ..Mario Coletta.. - Drumskins, ..Colin Mulhern.. - Bass..
Influences
The Beatles, T. Rex, Pulp, Terry Reid, The Zombies, Vanilla Fudge, Turtles, Link Wray, The Smiths, Ocean Colour Scene, Love, Kills, Oasis, The Band, Dick Dale, Arctic Monkeys, Animals, Raveonettes, Who, Echo, Stones, Cocker, Velvets, Verve, Zep, Suede, Burrito Brothers, Big Star,
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