Lightening Bolt
Sonic Youth
The Advantage
Hella
Marnie Stern
Swell Maps
and a lot of other things
We have no fixed music abode.
We sketch around like pond skaters.
We change our minds according to mood and education.
The things we like may or may not be found in our music.
Sounds Like
Cars crashing in the ocean and nothing at all like that
The Hysterical Injury are a dynamic duo of bass, voice and drums.
Lee plays drums like a tribal, thundering machine. Annie plays tapping, slapping, (dis)chordant 4 to the floor basslines. Overlayed with sweet pop vocal meets riot grrl growl. Tearing the pop apart and severing it upfront ways!
We were interviewed and featured on the unsigned slot for the Steve Lamacq Show on BBC 6 Music June 2009
'Adam West' by The Hysterical Injury was in Steve Lamacq's top 60 records by bands to get excited about 2008!
Bethan Elfyn say's 'Stunning' about' Adam West'
People who like us; Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio1 Introducing, Steve Lamacq, Melt Banana, Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1, Ruth Barnes Other Women Show, BBC6, Tom Robinson BBC6 Music, Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales, Gary Smith and Richard Pitt BBC Radio Bristol Introducing, Church of Girl, Small Town America -Public Service Broadcast, icast.com Best of Myspace show amongst others....
OUR NEW EP back on the shelves!!
The Hysterical Injury - Our Lives Are A Futuristic Nightmare
Hand Silk Screened
Tracklistings -
Labyrinth
Snow
Three
We Machines
£5 inc P&P
The Hysterical Injury - EP
featuring guitarist Robert Jackson.
Track Listings
Adam West
24 Hour Glass
Etc
FAD
£3 inc p&p
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" Annie and Lee have it seems taken such slight distractions in their stride and battened up the hatches to craft a skin peeling vibrant alchemy of cacophony and detuned angulated oblivion. Obviously informed by the Sonic Youth school of aural disfigurement though like fellow prickly pop travellers the Joy Formidable etched with a mindset displaying the corrosive elements of both the Cranes and Bleach. Still it’s a razor sharp aural assault whatever the preferred reference markers might be, the incessant back beats pummelling away at your head space turning the grey matter to a jelly like substance, the fraying and fractured angular fuzz drills ad-hoc and disruptive needling away with a sublime out of focus disquiet beneath it all the would be a pristine bubblegum pop interior is scarred, maimed and pulled to pieces thread by thread by the fraught surface austerity." - Mark Barton (LOOSINGTODAY.COM)
"The Hysterical Injury are nothing short of superb" - Opposition T
"It's intelligent, and not just lyrically; the anger at the commercial Kate Moss' concept of beauty taken from a less obvious angle, pondering on why we fail to dissmiss the unobtainable and accept ourselves. Also in the imaginative song structure, no dominating guitar but with drums leading the way for the continuous undercurrent provided by the near metronomic descending bass line that pulls the song into deeper focus and builds, along with the vocals transitioning between ethereal and riot, smoothly to give the song a post 1am feel of a night destined to end in post rock, just not for a while yet. As I said, smart band." - Chris Glynn Drunken Werewolf Magazine
"Bath based Hysterical Injury was on first, and was brilliant. Really fresh sounding, a hint of PJ Harvey, quite stripped down (the band has three members, guitar, bass and drums) but with influences from a range of genres, hints of electronica and bass driven sounds, to create an overall effect that lifted it from your average grunge rock affair." - Sian Norris, Rockfeedback.com
"...Hysterical Injury showcasing a surreal post-rock sound...Sounds good even without listening, but they really knew how to make a noise. The vocalist, yelling and dancing like it was 1979, the guitarist getting sounds out of his instrument that were utterly unnatural and a fantastic drummer, who was so fast, yet hard and amazingly still in time. They kicked up a superb storm as they tinkered away with their effects." by Cloudboy at Rottenmeats blogspot
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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we love thehystericalinjury ...specialy ADAM WEST! we hope to play with you cats in the future. you know when hoverboards are out haha. check out our mates band - http://myspace.com/pforpersia ...very similar to yrselves - Gav x
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