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Talk To Your Kids About Gangs

by Holy Smokes

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1.
The Big Picture 01:03
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2.
Too Many Wives (All You Need Is Blood) 03:30
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3.
Pretty Much None of Us Know Anything 03:06
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4.
04 Missed Connections 01:42
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5.
Don't Squab on God's Tracks 02:56
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6.
Young Accent 04:46
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7.
Upsidedown 02:17
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Quantum Leaper of Los Angeles County 07:18
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9.
No Dice 02:59
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10.
If You Pull It Out, You Better Use It 02:24
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11.
Welcome To Say You're Welcome 05:06
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12.
Afternoon 01:58
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13.
I Wasn't Scared, He Couldn't Feel His Hands 03:11
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14.
Universe's N.A.R.C. 06:25
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15.
Young Man's Blues 05:05
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"Talk To Your Kids About Gangs" is the culmination of a recording process that began in 2003, with the line-up of Zach Hill, Dan Elkan, Rob Crow, Carson McWhirter, Jonathan Hischke, Ian Hernandez and J.R. Thompson. The group first assembled for the album "Masculine Drugs", a soundtrack to a book penned by founder Zach Hill and released by Suicide Squeeze Records. On their Skin Graft debut, Holy Smokes arrive fully formed. Where the band's debut offered a discordant free-jazz-noise-rock shock, "Talk To Your Kids About Gangs" emerges as a harmonic tangle of pitches and thunder claps, that as they unravel, come into focus as intelligible, infectious oddments of grooving sonance.

Make no mistake, these are songs: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synth, Drums, Samplers, Toys, Piano, Keyboards, Trumpet and Gadgets - no bullshit. Holy Smokes have recorded a masterfully drawn, spectral broadcast; a call to arms now and forever.

FUN FACT(S)
HOLY SMOKES made their live debut at the CMJ music marathon.

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released September 12, 2006

LINE UP:
Zach Hill: Drums, Vocals, Guitars, Synth, Sampler, Toys, Harmonica, Piano, Trumpet
Dan Elkan: Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Keyboard
Rob Crow: Vocals, Various Instruments
Carson McWhirter: Guitars, Sampling
Jonathan Hischke: Bass, Screams, Synth
Ian Hernandez: Bass
J.R. Thompson: Recording, Bass

Art by Zach Hill & Mark Fischer

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