Hunter hunt hendrix biography review
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Liturgy
New York's trio Liturgy, fronted by transgender vocalist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Haela Ravenna after switching gender in 2020) with guitarist Bernard Gann, debuted with the EP Immortal Life (2008). Expanded to a quartet, Liturgy released Renihilation (20 Buck Spin, 2009), a collection of brief pieces that wed the sonic stereotypes of black metal (blastbeats, buzzing instruments and psychotic vocals) with the cultural stereotypes of progressive rock (intellectual attitude, high-brow composition). Pagan Dawn is typical of their excessive and relentless screaming, strumming and pummeling. A sort of riff and melody appears in Mysterium before drums and vocals pulverize every human feature of it. The wall of noise does exude emotions, particularly in Beyond the Magic Forest, where the infernal vocals seem to beg for help and the guitar responds with an undulating "melodic" solo. To make sure we didn't miss the point, the al
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No Popularity Contest: Extra Life’s Charlie Looker Interviewed
The best album of last year – in the opinion of this observer – was Made Flesh, the second long player by Brooklyn three-piece Extra Life. If you’re of a mind that the best album of any given year ought to capture the zeitgeist in some way, or change the direction of the wind blowing ‘cross the musical landscape, or even just sell a vast amount of copies and receive industry awards for its trouble, then you and I sing from a different hymn sheet, as Made Flesh ticks none of those boxes. I can’t excuse my intransigence, of course, but all I can say is that I’m pretty sure I heard over a thousand other albums in 2010, and none of them made as lasting an impression as this one, or sounded so little like anything else currently being made and described as ‘rock music’.
Extra Life, in existence for about five years and ultimately the muse of Charlie Looker – whose CV
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