HOLY HAIL: "THE DYING (AFTER) PARTY" OUT TOMORROW; ON TOUR NOW WITH FLORENCE & THE MACHINE

Check out Poorly Shot Interviews Over Coffee's awesome and poorly-shot interview over coffee with Holy Hail HERE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyee0ICilfk

From QRO Magazine: "Tribal rhythms and electronica that's less ‘electronic‘, and more ‘physical‘ or ‘real‘, have made serious in-roads into alternative music in the last year-plus, from January 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion (QRO review) by Animal Collective on the more electronic side of things, to last January's Odd Blood (QRO review) by Yeasayer on the harder end. But these sounds still get the criticism of being too inaccessible, especially on first listen, and it does take a while to enjoy & appreciated acts like Animal Collective & Yeasayer (despite hipsters who will call whatever they do ‘amazing‘ after the first note, just because they're what's hot right now...). What it all needs is something that's easier on the ears - and mind. That's where Holy Hail comes in with The Dying (After) Party EP.

The New York outfit has been turning heads since 2008's debut full-length, Independent Pleasure Club, opening for acts like The Gossip (though that was the band's second show ever), The Rapture & The Kills, and they've managed to keep their electric/rock mix without sounding like those electric/rock bands. Last year's The Dying Party EP took their sound a step further in complexity, but threatened to fall into the aforementioned inaccessible trap. That's why follow-up (After) is so welcome, as it invites everyone to the Party.

Not that it's really a ‘party‘ record - Holy Hail are still intricate enough to avoid the overt, and there's a distance to the EP in its echoes, from the epic call of opener "Riverine" on through. The sustain can veer into the garage at times, such as the almost country-like portions of "Riverine", where co-vocalist Cat Hartwell comes to the fore, to the quieter and less special "On Tippy Toes". (After) does swerve between the more atmos-tech such as "Painted Bird" and more rock-grounded "Days of Metro", but can also meet somewhere in the middle, like the jungle beats-with-rock underpinnings "Feels Like Forever". Which side you like more depends on the listener, but the speed of "Days" and echo-sustain base of "Good Intentions" can be praised by anyone."