Just got this in the mail a couple days ago, listened to it last night as i was drifting off to the nether realms of consciousness. Hototogisu are one of my favorite psych/noise bands going right now, and i've been lucky enough to have caught them pretty much right at the beginning of their career several years ago, so every record is like i'm evolving right along with them. HG is a duo consisting of Matthew Bower (the legend, the genius, the person responsible for the head churining devastation of Skullflower, Total, Sunroof! and Marcia Bassett (of the equally amazing Double Leopards and her own amazing amp destruction project, Zaimph) so of course you know that anything produced by such a union is going to be nothing short of totally brilliant. This new one another dense slab of skree and guitar extremism but it doesn't have the violence that has characterized the majority of HG work (i won't say all, because their have been a couple records that get into some seriously sweet bliss out moments.) "Spooked Summer" tightropes somewhere between the two styles-the feedback and whirring never let up, and there's all sorts of noised up trance shit going every which way, but the overall feel is one of sweet melodicism and dare i say almost a "mellow" vibe. Don't read too much into that-this record seriously destroys, especially if played at the requisitie crushing volumes, but it seems to reference a minimalism practiced by the likes of Conrad or Young, a desire to lift the listener to another realm of mental experience via volume, repetition and an intense layering of overlapping noises. It's like getting your head lost in some thick, choking cloud, but what you're choking on is some sweet sweet oversaturated piece of humming melodic guitar cake...so suffice to say i love this shit, alongside this album i got Marcia's new record as well and i may do another review to see if i can find a division between the two. Highly recommended, as is everything from these two!!
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