Hush Mozey – The ‘Tales Of Bigotry’ EP.
Hush Mozey – Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
For our previous work on the band – Click Here.
Bristol, a city with various strong sonic-traditions from Punk-Rock to Indie and from Metal to Reggae and beyond. A day’s walk in the city will yield innumerable variations and combinations of any of the above and indeed a great deal more; so in short – discovering a new band from Bristol is usually a treat.
And that is exactly where we find Hush Mozey and their debut EP Tales Of Bigotry released earlier this year. The band’s self-dubbed moniker of “drowsy Rock n’ Roll” is certainly applicable but really isn’t the whole story. Tales Of Bigotry is really incredibly varied for a seven track release and seemingly feels like a full-length rather than the precursor to such that it indeed is.
‘Moroccan Treasure’ is a warped and distorted take on Indie Rock paired with enough Blues-Rock reverb and playful bass-lines that it slowly becomes something entirely it’s own. Vocally, anyone who has heard the band before or any of their vocalist’s solo-work will feel immersed immediately.
‘A Place For Them’ takes these bluesy guitar-tones and decides to follow the reverb down a route more inclined to Folk-Punk than anything else. Track two is playful and clever in it’s lyricisms and despite leaning towards Folk in it’s former half it then very much proves my point regarding Bristol earlier in this piece by briefly but expertly flirting with Ska.
‘Burlesque’ again changes the tune with the only real stark similarities with the former being the drowsy-vocals and low-ridden bass-line. ‘Burlesque’ is the baking hot-day track where all you want to do is vegetate, drink beer (or cider because you are in Bristol) and forget about things for a while.
‘Listen Learn’ is perhaps the best on the release as it shows despite all these genre-hops and clear influences the band carry, they can also write an excellent Indie-Pop song with welcome a Alternative Rock weight just because.
A record chocked-full of stellar tracks is nothing without the correct running order. Hush Mozey are already playing it little precariously via their ever-changing in-release sound but through discarding this worry, leave it behind and in-fact use it to their advantage. ‘Listen Learn’ in it’s final more sonically cumbersome moments leads perfectly to the mid-tempo Punk-esque Alternative Rock album highlight that is ‘Paper People’.
Tales Of Bigotry by this point has completely changed. Hush Mozey have transcended from a playful and far reaching but ultimately Indie-based chrysalis, keeping only the bare-minimum and required genealogy while embracing their new life as a Punk-appreciating, Alternative Rock driven, socially aware butterfly. See ‘Hideout’.
‘One More Night’ closes a release that is more than worth you time. The track stands at the mid-point between the flirtatious Indie-based foundation of the former half and the weighed far more suited and unrestrained sound of the latter half.
This final track is insanely quotable so I will leave you with the line that stuck in my own head after the first listen and leave the rest for you. – ‘[…] got lost in my mind, nowhere to hide, lost in my mind, nowhere to hide’.
Find Them:
- Social Media/Updates: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Official Website.
- Music: Spotify, Google Play, Deezer.
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