Album Stream: Humours – The Onanist EP


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Portland based Humours is streaming their The Onanist EP in its entirety, out now via Eolian Empire here.

Featuring members of 1939 Ensemble and engineer extraordinaire, Fester (Rabbits, Honduran, Usnea, Stoneburner), Humours strips Crimsonesque prog to its stark elements and fuses it with the energy and abandon of Jawbox, Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu, flitting through complex movements with a mastery of dynamics and accented by strong, melodic vocals. The fascinating compulsion manifested is a technical, visceral, future look at rock for new and old-schoolers alike. Recorded and produced by Fester and the band at his Haywire Studios and with appropriately deployed cover art by Matt Stikker, the angle on The Onanist is Drive Like King Crimson; Humours deploying post-hardcore prog, yet less mathy math rock, wherein the songs are still songs not wackoff seshes. The band’s ultra-tight delivery mangles composed, serene wanderings with dementia-enshrouded rampages in seemingly equal doses, seamlessly dragging together influences in from dynamic ’70s progressive acts and blown-out ’90s post-hardcore.

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Humours Releasing The Onanist EP on April 14th


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Portland quartet Humours will be releasing their debut EP The Onanist on April 14, 2015 via Eolian Empire. The EP was recorded and produced by Fester and the band at his Highwire Studios in Portland, stickered-up with cover art by Matt Stikker.

Their ultra-tight delivery mangles composed, serene wanderings with dementia-enshrouded rampages in seemingly equal doses, stripping parts from dynamic ’70s progressive acts and blown-out ’90s post-hardcore, reassembling them into a Frankensteinian freak mobile that stands out in any genre’s parking lot. Featuring members of 1939 Ensemble and engineer extraordinaire, Fester (Rabbits, Honduran, Usnea, Stoneburner), the outfit strips Crimsonesque prog to its stark elements and fuses it with the energy and abandon of Jawbox, Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu, flitting through complex movements with a mastery of dynamics and accented by strong, melodic vocals. The fascinating compulsion manifested is a technical, visceral, future look at rock for new and old-schoolers alike.

The Onanist Track Listing:
01: In The Court Of The Corn-Eyed King
02: Happy Birthday Alex Tucker
03: Bridesmaid _ The Onanist
04: Dog Shredder

The band is doing a string of Northwestern US dates in April.

Apr 09: Jones Radiator – Spokane, WA
Apr 10: Hogwash – Coeur D’Alene, ID
Apr 11: Company Bar – Seattle, WA
Apr 12: Deadbeat Records – Olympia, WA

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