Massive Hassle to Release Number One LP Oct. 27
Comprised of brothers Bill Fisher and Marty Fisher — who played together in Mammothwing and now collaborate in Church of the Cosmic Skull and apparently Dystopian Future Movies as well — the two-piece Massive Hassle was named in honor of the thing they wanted to avoid. Fair. Church of the Cosmic Skull requires no little amount of commitment to aesthetic, and an outlet for songs not in their bright-harmonized cultish theme makes sense. They’re brothers. In a band together. They’ve been playing since probably they were younger than they are in the picture that adorns the cover of Number One, their debut LP out Oct. 27. Familial relation makes for vibrant dynamic, and sure enough that’s the case here too.
The resulting album is purposefully raw in form, performed and recorded live, and Massive Hassle have been posting videos for the tracks — well made performance clips; I’m pretty sure they just taped themselves making the record, which would be convenient in a way that, once it was done, would be less of a hassle than doing videos after — and the latest of them is “Knife,” which you can see and hear below, multisensory being that you are. Please do enjoy.
Info and the always crucial preorder link, courtesy of the PR wire:
MASSIVE HASSLE – Number One – Oct. 27
Great news to all lovers of real music – large numbers of people still get it.
An experiment has been conducted: via the new two-piece project, MASSIVE HASSLE, brothers Bill and Marty Fisher (Mammothwing, Church of the Cosmic Skull, Dystopian Future Movies) have been releasing all of their new garage-rock / jazz-blues / punk / country / doom-metal inspired hit songs on video, recorded and filmed live in single studio takes, you know, like the Whistle Test.
The results have been most triumphant – in the first two months, our new favourite harmony-singing bearded brethren have surpassed 50,000 youtube views, 50,000 spotify streams, pissed off a ton of internet users with their logo and genre claims, and are on the verge of selling out of the first edition vinyl on preorder – all with 3 more songs yet to be released for your listening pleasure.
Today they announce the release date of the much-anticipated debut album ‘Number One’ – out Fri 27th Oct 2023 on Septaphonic Records.
No longer must music be over-produced, sample-replaced, multi-tracked to high heaven and generally lacking in good vibrations – MASSIVE HASSLE are here to take you into a new epoch where music is played with instruments and songs are sung into microphones for real.
Check out the videos and preorder the new album ‘Number One’ on vinyl, CD and digital here: massivehassle.tv
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