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 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!
We were Bethan Elfyn's 'This weeks favourite' on Tom Robinson's BBC6 Music Introducing.
People who like us; Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio1 Introducing, Steve Lamacq, Melt Banana, 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 AVAIABLE BELOW!
The Hysterical Injury - Our Lives Are A Futuristic Nightmare
LTD ed Poster pocket handmade cd.
£5 inc P&P
The video below is called 'Camera Drag'. We made a video by tying a video camera to the bottom of a van and dragging it around a city. We initially made this to go as a backdrop to our live shows, which we will still do where a projector is near. Below is the version meant as an art projection. The music is created from one of our songs 'Silhouette Icon' looped, cut up, duplicated, overdubbed to support the visual in its nausiating outpour. Although the experience and politics differ from Christian Marclay's 'Guitar Drag' (media projection 2000) this piece was visually inspired by Marclay's piece (check it out).
Please join our mailing list for up-to-date info and possible guest list spots etc etc
" 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
Offset Festival 2009 - featuring The Horrors, The Slits, A Certain Ratio, The Futureheads, Future of the Left, Rolo Tomassi and 150 others.
www.offsetfestival.co.uk
i think i just had my brains punched out with a brick of gold wrapped in heavy metal, zowie!
sorry it took us so long to come play this - dog sitting, general hysteria (!) etc. etc. - but it was worth the wait. we just want to put it on the stereo now... send CD!!!!!!!!!
oh my oh my oh my amaxing to the max my friends my keyboard can't do exclamation marks but if it could there would be flippin loads of them xxxxxxxxxxx
Hey Annie, Stepping out with some new bass lines at the mo, bit of a change of direction, getting down with some funk and soul. Good show the other night at the Porter, sorry couldn't stick around long. Hope you're both good. Tony
Wow had a few people mention "Who IS That" when i played you today during the Tag team show. Played Adam West Once and Pale Face Twice during the tag team, and I'm Playing Adam West, Pastel Face and Symphathy Pains again during Aramageddon Hungry today.
Great news about being on the Steve Lamacq show!!!
I know it's not the same, but we’re playing "Fad" and plugging your upcoming Porter Cellar Bar gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am). Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
Online Now!
