Talk To Your Kids About Gangs, by Holy Smokes

Talk To Your Kids About Gangs

by Holy Smokes

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1.	The Big Picture 01:03	buy track
2.	Too Many Wives (All You Need Is Blood) 03:30	buy track
3.	Pretty Much None of Us Know Anything 03:06	buy track
4.	04 Missed Connections 01:42	buy track
5.	Don't Squab on God's Tracks 02:56	buy track
6.	Young Accent 04:46	buy track
7.	Upsidedown 02:17	buy track
8.	Quantum Leaper of Los Angeles County 07:18	buy track
9.	No Dice 02:59	buy track
10.	If You Pull It Out, You Better Use It 02:24	buy track
11.	Welcome To Say You're Welcome 05:06	buy track
12.	Afternoon 01:58	buy track
13.	I Wasn't Scared, He Couldn't Feel His Hands 03:11	buy track
14.	Universe's N.A.R.C. 06:25	buy track
15.	Young Man's Blues 05:05	buy track

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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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