Massive Hassle Announce Debut Album Number One; Post “Lane” Video
Massive Hassle, you say? Well that’s family, innit? I like the subtle humor there, and I like the semi-alliterative way the name of the project rolls out of the mouth, curling the lip under for the hard ‘v’ and spreading wide to account for the double ‘s’ in ‘hassle,’ and more important, I like the song. The first track from the brothers-only-allowed Massive Hassle — whose fraternal components, guitarist/vocalist Marty Fisher and drummer/vocalist Bill Fisher, used to play together in Mammothwing and currently both feature in Church of the Cosmic Skull, which the latter founded — flows like mellow psych blues early and gets a heavier stretch going later but is still way-soulful in vibe and works as fluidly as one might expect from two dudes who actually grew up together.
“Lane” is available to check out in a live video below, and apparently that’s going to be the Massive Hassle method throughout, releasing each song from the album to lead up to the album’s actual release. Preorders are coming in about 10 days — I accidentally spent my Obelisk merch Paypal credit on a seat upgrade for my flight home from Freak Valley, gotta sell some more shirts; $25 for a jewel case CD is jarring until you get to the part where it says free shipping — and I wonder if creating and taking on another band has become or will become a pain in the ass, or if the Fishers can avoid that particular trap. If so, they should remember to write a book about that and share the secret with the universe.
I don’t see an exact release date for Massive Hassle‘s debut full-length, Number One, on the preorder page, but it says it’ll ship in Nov.-Dec., so the two-piece have plenty of time to do more video reveals and trickle out information about the band and album, and that’s frankly a lot more fun. Here’s looking forward.
Second single drops this Friday at 7PM BST. The following came down the PR wire:
‘Brothers Bill Fisher and Marty Fisher (Mammothwing, Church of the Cosmic Skull, Dystopian Future Movies) announce new duo project MASSIVE HASSLE, with their debut album ‘Number One’ coming later this year on Septaphonic Records, and the first of many video singles premiering this Friday.
– With Bill on drums, Marty on guitar, both singing, the project started at the end of 2022 in Nottingham, England, with a number of directives in mind:
– Everything is to be recorded live and filmed in singular takes
– All songs and lyrics are written collaboratively in the studio
– Both brothers will sing in harmony or unison throughout
– Every track will be released as a live video building up to the album launch
– Don’t let it become a Massive Hassle
To date, the results of this experiment are a number of astoundingly smooth, thick, wide and deeply moving tracks which straddle a variety of influences including garage-rock, jazz, blues, punk, country, doom-metal, and no other two-piece bands that have come before…’
The countdown to preorders for vinyl, CD and merch has begun – check out the teaser video and subscribe here: MASSIVEHASSLE.TV
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