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01. HASSLE HOUND - Anvil Stamping Stallion
02. HASSLE HOUND - Tahitian Sideshow
03. HASSLE HOUND - Star Lantern and Two Mice
04. HASSLE HOUND - Poppy Blush
05. HASSLE HOUND - The Night of the Great Season
06. HASSLE HOUND - Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
07. HASSLE HOUND - White Roads
08. HASSLE HOUND - Woods & Water Dpt.
09. HASSLE HOUND - The Farce of Dusty Knee
10. HASSLE HOUND - Busy Fang
11. HASSLE HOUND - Hazel
12. HASSLE HOUND - O Baba Pino
13. HASSLE HOUND - Saw You Walk on Nighttime Minutes
14. HASSLE HOUND - Primrose
15. HASSLE HOUND - Lucky Bugs Win Prizes
ARTIST
TITLE
Limelight Cordial
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STAUB 065CD STAUB 065CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/21/2006

Debut full length by this trio. Hassle Hound are a benign tornado, roaring and twisting through the best and most eclectic of record collections, ripping out and tearing off ideas and samples. They plunder for a reason -- to make fragile and lovely music, often charmingly odd but with a gleeful melancholy, off-kilter but on the ball. There is a childlike quality to their music, but the child in question must be a musical prodigy with a wry sense of humor and a maturity beyond his years. They are not afraid to be beautiful. Machines and beats are caressed into soft humanity by delicate vocals, the boisterous cuddle of eccentrically played instruments and ingenious guitar patterns. Here are wistful love songs which also sound like the greatest James Bond theme ever (if those films had ever been made by a 60's new wave Czech director). Cartoon oneirics slapstick their way across lush countryside and toddle through town, favorite-uncle drunk and beaming expansively. Trying to pin them down is like drinking beer with a fork. They coin new genres like other bands do sound checks -- too much funky not enough, crofter dub, genial noise, surf and turf guitar, carousel gothic, collagetronica. If Harry Partch had made music for ice-cream vans it might have been like some of these affable inventions.