hi.
we are HYMNS. we have two records out (yes, count them!): 'Brother/Sister' & 'Travel In Herds' (in that order, you know).
our new EP, 'Appaloosa' will be released July 21st! five new songs...OH YES!
oh, by the way: write us--we love that kind of stuff.
past touring:
ben kweller
sam roberts band
daniel johnston
the lemonheads
butch walker
mtv choose or lose tour with locksley
annuals
etc.
-you should buy our records- (click below)
-talk-
-Spin Magazine 'Travel In Herds' Review-
3 Stars!
'If Pavement and Neil Young Took A Roadtrip to Burritoville'
'These New Yorkers recorded their sophomore LP on a 60-acre ranch in Texas, and the album's airy country rock feels appropriately spacious and uninhibited. 'Travel In Herds' features a honky tonk instrumentation-pedal steel, piano-but much like early Wilco, nods to the Rolling Stones as much as Waylon Jennings. The skronking 'I Can't Be What U Want' is built around an addictive banjo line, lifted up by trumpet and sax. All that unadulterated plucking, though, inevitably leads you dreaming of flat, unending pastures.' - spin magazine
'their dreamy west coast folk was drifting me off to a place where vw vans cruise the horizon, the weather isn't perpetually set on "march," and gram parsons is jesus. i dare you to listen.' - 'sup magazine
'Brian Harding and Jason Roberts have been playing together since grade school and it shows, their riffs and leads flawlessly intertwining, gracefully switching roles until they make a nonsense of the terms "rhythm" and "lead" guitar. As supple as they are subtle, the pair blur genre lines along the way, but in the end, their North Carolina roots inevitably show, all those years picking away on the porch shining through.' - allmusic
'Roberts and the band's front man Brian Harding have known each other since they were little kids, been playing music together almost as long and it shows -- the two have a tight, effortless chemistry on stage, and along with drummer Tony Kent and their newest member, bassist Matt Shaw, they play a show that offers Southern fried good times, start to finish.' - john norris, mtv
'The pace and sequencing of this album is nearly perfect, which is difficult when you make a record that touches so many bases. It--s not easy for a band to be this ambitious and still pull it off. Wilco did it with Being There and the Hymns more than succeed with Travel in Herds. Hymns cover expansive ground while keeping the listener comfortable in the familiar realms of Americana.
Sure, you hear some subtle and not-so-subtle nods to The Band, late 60--s Stones, Tom Petty (Blame it On the Mountains), and perhaps Gram Parsons (Off My Mind)--but Travel in Herds is a modern music-lovers album and is a record that any of those artists would have been proud to have made.' - brokenguitarstrings
'the california sunset twang doesn't sound forced and rests nicely in these well-crafted tunes.' - village voice
Thanks a lot for the add. EletriKa is complitly different of every Metal band you already know. Please, when you have a minute, just check EletriKa out, ok?
Hey i want to let you, and all my friends with whom i visit, that i always enjoy stopping by, even tho it's my bad i don't always get around to leaving a comment. But this time, i was thinkin bout how my mom taught me better. When u enter a room, u supposed to speak first to the people there, they not supposed to have to speak first lol. Even though, I know I am usually really busy recording my next album and everything, no excuses. So yea i wanted to say wassup, i like visiting your and others page when i wanna read, listen to music n stuff. U got a cool spot, and i hope your year is shaping up better than last year. Our life is supposed to get greater and greater right? Well let me know how everything is going with your goals for this year! ttyl
i listened to your new song! wow it is VERY different. I dunno why but it's sounds like Brian's got this Michael Jackson, Bee Gees vibe. Don't get mad at me! That's just what it reminds me of! (in a good way). yay new ep! And is that one of you as a kid on the front??
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