Housewives 2013-2017

Housewives / Дискография

Жанр: Experimental, Noise Rock, No Wave, Post Punk
Носитель: WEB
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): UK, US
Год издания: 2013-2017
Издатель (лейбл): Hands In The Dark / Negative Days / Blank Editions
Faux Discx, Rocket Recordings, Ever/Never Records
Страна исполнителя (группы): UK, London
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 02:01:56
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Post-punk / experimental noise band from London, UK.

2013 - Housewives EP

Label: Faux Discx
Catalog#: FAUX 027
Продолжительность: 00:18:47
Трэклист
1. Poppy 03:07

2. In Camera 02:59

3. Medicine Bottle 03:04

4. Almost Anything 04:33

5. 62426 05:01
'Housewives’ sound (or noise) is indebted to the scratch and scrawl of No Wave and Post Punk. Melody is often tossed aside in favour of clanging dissonance and sharp rhythmic turns. This Heat’s Charles Hayward noted 'a sort of monochromatic surliness slowly warms up to a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements' in Housewives’ sound. The influence of the likes of Luigi Russolo, Steve Reich and Phillip Glass can also be found within the space and noise of the group’s DNA. Upset The Rhythm put it best: 'their songs creep out of chaos into urgent bursts of energy and loud focus.'

2015 - Work

Label: Hands In The Dark / Negative Days / Blank Editions
Catalog#: HITD 027 / NEG 003 / BETBC 003
Продолжительность: 00:38:02
Трэклист
01. Fig. 1 [03:04]

02. Docile Body [05:39]

03. Life Swell [03:07]

04. Larceny [02:48]

05. Tele [02:37]

06. Half Step [02:09]

07. T.S.S [04:43]

08. Autarky [06:17]

09. Fallen Arches [02:40]

10. Balm (Icaria Sunstroke) [04:53]

2017 - FF061116

Label: Rocket Recordings
Catalog#: LAUNCH 116
Продолжительность: 00:39:09
Трэклист
1. Excerpt 1 07:42

2. Excerpt 2 02:44

3. Excerpt 3 01:29

4. Excerpt 4 02:58

5. Excerpt 5 04:50

6. Excerpt 6 04:07

7. Excerpt 7 15:16
Despite almost all bands being prone to painting themselves as frontier-hurdling mavericks who provoke extreme reactions in their audience, the fact is that the vast majority of them wont produce little more than bland indifference or benign acceptance in whichever audience they come into contact with, Not so Housewives, the London-based outfit whose psychic charge- equal parts brittle rhythmic drive, angular contortions and monochrome minimalism -
is as punishing in approach as the band are enigmatic in aspect.
‘FF061116’, which follows in the wake of their debut ‘Work’ (released on Hands in The Dark) and previous tapes and 7” releases (on Faux Discs and Blank Editions), the band shows no sign of compromise whatsoever, being as stark, harsh and stubbornly inhospitable as the strobe-haunted, feverishly kinetic live shows that have earned them a fearsome reputation beyond the rumoured West country of their origins or the urban environs of their adopted home. Split into seven excerpts and built on powerful repetition, it’s a mind-melding travail into abstraction and abjection which draws on post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde tropes to create an unclassifiable assault that feels oddly timeless - innovative, invigorating and bare-boned yet tapping into a uniquely English lineage that extends back to the 1970s and forward, into the unknown.
Nonetheless, whilst some may be able to detect influences like This Heat (whose Charles Hayward approvingly described their sound as redolent of “a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements”) or Einsturzende Neubauten, Housewives are carving out their own unique place in the darker quarters of the underground, motivated by a fearsome intensity of conviction and a fearlessly experimental approach. ‘FF061116’ is the latest in a series of transmissions from a collective mindset whose manifestations are as richly rewarding as they are relentlessly intense. Wherever they go from this aural outpost, all intrepid avant adventurers would do well to buckle in for the ride.

2017 - Housewives [NY RE]

Label: Ever/Never Records
Catalog#: e/n-018
Продолжительность: 00:18:47
Трэклист
1. Poppy 03:07

2. In Camera 02:59

3. Medicine Bottle 03:04

4. Almost Anything 04:33

5. 62426 05:01

2017 - Split w Massicot

Label: Blank Editions, Et Mon Cul C’est De Tofu?, Hands In The Dark, Red Wig, Harbinger Sound
Catalog#: BETBC 005, TOFU 125, HITD 034, RW 025, HARBINGER-MASS-001
Продолжительность: 00:07:11
Трэклист
1. Housewives - Exc. 281016 4:40

2. Massicot - Kokteilis 2:30
'After sharing countless stages and touring together over the last two years, like minded noisemakers Housewives and Massicot put together two brand new songs for this limited edition split 7”.
Housewives track ‘Exc. 281016’ perfectly captures the mechanical repetition of their live sound with austere precision and jarring No Wave stutters; their regimented chaos is punctuated with throat shredding manipulated vocals bringing to mind James Chance or the harsh repetition of Swans. Massicots’ ‘Kokteilis’ shows off their ease at genre hopping between their recognisable Tropical No Wave and uncharacteristic hip hop beats whilst showcasing their perfect marriage of pop and noise. Monotone vocals merge with saccharine chants whilst sharp riffs mesh with oscillating percussion to create a perfect bewildering dance track.
This release has gained the support of five labels as a collaboration between Blank Editions / Hands In The Dark / Red Wig / Et Mon Cul C’est Du Tofu? And Harbinger Sound.
Artwork by Housewives own Joseph Rafferty which comes in a reverse-board sleeve with spot UV Varnish'
RECORDED AND MIXED BY EDDIE HALLIDAY AT SUPER UNISON STUDIOS
MASTERED BY DOUG SHEARER

Artist Info

'Work' is the debut album by London based Housewives. SInce forming in 2013 they have released an EP with Faux Discx and more recently a 7' with Blank Editions.
'Work' was recorded and produced with the help of Alex Townend (Vision Fortune) on a remote farm in the French countryside.
Using de-tuned and home-made guitars basic song structures were formed and then added to with recordings made using found objects; machinery, agricultural equipment and construction materials intermingled with field recordings of the surrounding area. An electric fence from the surrounding farmers land prevented a clean signal to the amplifiers resulting in no guitar or bass parts being recorded at the farm.
The focus of the recording process was turned towards creating layers of percussive and instrumental parts; drum parts were recorded from the bottom of a disused silage tank (Autarky), church bells recorded from the closest village (Half Step) and the architecture of the farm captured by creating feedback loops from the ambient sound of the surrounding farm buildings (Fig. 1).
These compositions along with the remaining instrumental parts were assembled and finalised in Townend’s South East London studio.

Punk in the age of infinite duplication.
Endless algorithms -- strands of digital DNA wrapping like loose cords around the arteries of daily life. We find ourselves mannequin-ed -- gazing longingly at the constant churn of street life; a simulacrum of stimulation. All the dense paranoias of the 20th century have shadow-walked their way right up to our 21st century doorstep and they are quietly picking the lock while we fritter away the hours in the room with the screens. What to do about this concealed drudgery? Where to turn in these bleak hours? How can we break the chains of routine, the labor of labour? Perhaps at this late date, it would be naive to state: “We can listen to Housewives.” What decade is this? How can music still inspire concentrated thought while satisfying its inherent
physical demands? Rock music is intended to be functional. Postpunk music is music for doing. Housewives are a band that does; and the content is not mere window-dressing.
Housewives are: Industrious music for industrious people.
A few years ago, London, England’s Housewives, in the finest of postpunk traditions, began making an intensely focused racket. Their debut took the form of a five-song limi