HOODLUM SHOUTS 'YOUNG MAN OLD MAN' LP ON POISON CITY
Hoodlum Shouts deliver their first full-length dose of brooding sing-alongs with their debut album 'Young Man Old Man' set for joint release on Poison City and HelloSquare Recordings on March 28.
Recorded by Matt Voigt (The Nation Blue, Midnight Oil, The Dirty Three), Canberra's Hoodlum Shouts continues down the path of big bold simplicity and lush melodies, while balancing the needle somewhere between melancholy and uplifting. Musically 'Young Man Old Man' is a natural progression from their 2009 'Horses and Human Hands' EP, expanding the possibilities of modern Australian alt-country-rock, while lyrically exploring the age-old themes of history, our past and present, and the uncomfortable realisation that some things never change.
"Take The Nation Blue and The Drones, put them together, and you get Hoodlum Shouts; punk rock fuelled by the same kind of colonial fervour of those aforementioned bands. Superb stuff!" - Dom Alessio TRIPLE J
“It’s rare that an unknown band’s CD works its way across your desk and makes an instant impact. Rare, but so very rewarding when it does. So it was with Hoodlum Shouts, a four-piece rock band from Canberra. The band summon the tense ghosts of Midnight Oil and The Dead Kennedys as much as evoke more recent locals like The Nation Blue, The Drones and curiously—but with great affect—early Art of Fighting. There’s a rural melancholy to their angst, one that has room for harmonica, field recordings and sparse, hanging chords, as much as powerhouse drumming, thundering riffs and the taught, captivating, wobbly voice of Sam Leyshon.” - Marcus Teague TheVine.com.au
Head to www.poisoncityrecords.com to hear the track 'Gun, Germs, Steel' - recently released as a 7" single ahead of the album.
'Young Man Old Man' LP is out March 28th on Poison City Records. Pre-orders for a limited edition colour vinyl version will be available early February from the Poison City E-Store
Poison City will also handle distribution of the CD version to be released by Canberra label HelloSquare Recordings.
Hoodlum Shouts play The Corner Hotel (Melbourne) on Feb 18th w/ La Dispute (USA) + Harmony Tickets on sale now.
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