Nightclub Version of the Eternal

The Howling Hex | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B000GIXW9W
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

As part of their encompassing tour of the world at large, THE HOWLING HEX have disseminated their experiences into a golden hour of rock and roll to create a Nightclub Version of the Eternal for your listening endeavors. Existing simultaneously below the crust of the Earth's war-torn culture and on the main street of consumer America, The Howling Hex spend their time pushing their trademark New Border Sound to the bold, the curious, and the jaded alike, crafting sonic pleasures for all needs. Albums such as All Night Fox and 1-2-3 have explored frontier sounds and sampled local cultures while brewing an unmistakable essence of rock and roll as never heard before. The A-V approach of You Can't Beat Tomorrow caught these two Americas in the frame as The Howling Hex jammed their unmistakable sound.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Bluesy, boozy, and loose garage rock jams, November 27, 2008

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Ben Sullivan (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nightclub Version of the Eternal (Audio CD)

Effortless swagger buoyed with effortlessly amateurish guitar scrawl and rolling grooves. And when I say "effortless playing", I'm talking more about a banging about with childish relish than anything, well, rehearsed. The playing and changes flit with conventional song ideas throughout, but the trio tend to ignore anything resembling an editorial decision in favor of off-key pentatonic detours and endless verses and codas. From the frowsy transitions to the overall nonchalance exhibited throughout the near-hour it takes the band to cut through 7 numbers, I imagine a Howling Hex beer run would put most of my historic benders to shame. Lord knows how long those "Six Pack Days" ended up being.

While I'm unfamiliar with much of Neil Michael Hagerty's body of work in and out of the Trux, I can see the appeal of the aesthetic here--but only when it's met with some attention to hooks. "Hammer and Bluebird" matches its bourbon bluster with a super catchy theme, and Saenz rides the hooks of "Good Things Are Easy" with some bite. But fifty full minutes plus of non-stop unison vocal harmonies/double-tracked vox, no discernible transitions and a slew of purposeless leads is just too much for a garage dilettante like me. That is, unless ya got whatever it is these guys were on here.