We Shall Never Speak, by HOO

We Shall Never Speak

by HOO

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Dennis Still Dream is working out to be my favourite track on 2021.
Looking forward to the album. Favorite track: Still Dream.

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1.	Ghost in You 04:07	buy track
2.	Cranium 03:47	buy track
3.	The Mighty 06:35	buy track
4.	Still Dream 06:48	buy track
5.	No One Can Ever See This 01:36	buy track
6.	We Shall Never Speak 05:00	buy track
7.	Powder Moon 03:19	buy track
8.	You Changed the Way You Smile 06:28	buy track
9.	Sea of Glass 04:16	buy track

about

Guitarists Lee Lavender & Neil Halstead join acclaimed HOO to create a synth and guitar heavy masterpiece with guests Jackie Oates & Farmer Dave Scher.

Producer-songwriter and organic gardener with a penchant for wah-wah, Nick Holton brings you the wide-screen, heartbreaking glory of HOO’s gothy toned second album WE SHALL NEVER SPEAK. A more song filled leap forward from debut CENTIPEDE WISDOM’s post-rock electro adventures.

Holton is a master builder of woozy dynamics, his songs unfurl with a mysterious, hooky logic all their own - this is cinematic and deeply emotive machine music. A glorious hybrid of electro, shoegaze, dubby ‘niceness’ and floating dream pop. The spooked, narcotic throb of opener GHOST IN YOU. The pounding, chewy Kraut/Space rock of CRANIUM. THE MIGHTY’s exquisite slow build towards Can-like lift-off. Snarly hypnotic throb of first single ‘Still Dream’ pounds along like a wide-screen Spaceman 3. Its subject paints a picture of youthful arrogance veiled in a foil of anger & cowardliness, a loved one lost to an ocean of dark cold space. Moog battles with groovy bass while guitars try to take your head off. A brief flirt with musique concrète on the metronomic NO ONE CAN SEE THIS. The Halstead co-penned shoegazy, echoey swagger of WE SHALL NEVER SPEAK. The album’s poisoned chalice & peak song moment, POWDER MOON. The synthpop of YOU CHANGED THE WAY YOU SMILE. Closer SEA OF GLASS sounds like Leonard Cohen visiting Kraftwerk’s Klingklang studio. Let that sink in - the idea is perhaps the heart of this venture.

The detail and texture is extraordinary. A glorious hybrid of an album that over eight songs builds into something unique. Epic and homegrown. Upbeat and melancholic. Questing and questioning. Haunted by loss but future-facing. It’s a genuine marvel.

credits

released November 19, 2021

PRODUCER - HOO
MASTERED - HEBA KADRY

Ghost In You
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, key, percussion and some guitar
Lee Lavender - Guitar
Ian McCutcheon (Mojave3, The Loose Salute, Moon Attendant) - Drum

Cranium
Lee Lavender - Guitar
Kev Wells (Coley Park) - Guitar
Chris Monger - Drums
Paul Blewett (Moon Attendant, BHB) - Bass
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, some bass, key, percussion and some guitar

The Mighty
Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave3, Black Hearted Brother) - Guitar
Jackie Oates - voc
Ian McCutcheon - Drums
Robin Bennett (Bennett, Wilson, Poole) - Flute
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, some bass, key, percussion and some guitar

Still Dream
Lee Lavender - Git, synth & co-write
Chris Monger - drum
Paul Blewett - Bass
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, some bass, key and some guitar

No One Can Ever See This (inst)
Chris Monger - drums
Nick Holton -synth, percussion and some guitar

We Shall Never Speak
Neil Halstead - Guitar
Lee Lavender - Guitar
Paul Blewett - bass
Chris Monger - drums
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, percussion

Powder Moon
Jackie Oates - Voc
Paul Blewett - Bass
Ian McCutcheon - drums
Charlie Holton - Voc/ synth
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal and some guitar

You Changed the Way You Smile
Jackie Oates - voc
Farmer Dave - Lap Steel
Ian McCutcheon - Drums
Charlie Holton - Synth
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, some bass, key, percussion and some guitar

Sea Of Glass
Lee Lavender - guitar & Co-write
Ian McCutcheon - drums
Nick Holton -synth, Vocal, percussion

All Tracks written by Nick Holton apart from We Shall Never Speak - Hoton/ Halstead, Still Dream & Sea Of Glass by Lavender/ Holton

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