Gang Gang Dance - Hillulah flac album

Complete your Gang Gang Dance collection. Gang Gang Dance ‎– Hillulah. Genre: Electronic, Rock. Style: Abstract, Post Rock, Experimental.

HILLULAH could be considered Gang Gang Dance's lost recording. Between their 2001 debut, the REVIVLA OF THE SHITTEST 12" assembled out of old practice tapes and 2004's GOD'S MONEY, their is a sizable chunk of innovative music that has remained unheard by anyone who missed their live show. In the days approaching an event, the band would practice nonstop, work shopping material to create a unique live set for each performance. HILLULAH was compiled from live recordings and sewn together by GGD drummer Tim Dewitt over a marathon 72-hour session.

Along with fellow iconoclasts such as Man Man and the Liars, avant gardists Gang Gang Dance grew sideways out of the mid-2000s post-punk revival. Eschewing traditional song structure in favor of a sonic maelstrom of kitchen-sink percussion, tribal chanting, and strangely organic discord, their debut album HILLULAH hews closer to the early Residents or This Heat than to Gang of Four, but is as confrontational as any of them.

Hillulah could be considered Gang Gang Dance’s lost recordings. Between their debut recorded in 2001, the Revival Of The Shittest 12" being assembled out of old practice tapes, and God’s Money being written & recorded in the later half of 2004; there is a sizable gap of innovative music that has remained unheard by anyone who missed them live. The period of late 2003 through early 2004 was extremely fruitful for Gang Gang Dance. Every show was different as the band constantly experimented and pushed the limitations of their equipment to create new music. The results were at their most basic the epoch of practiced improvisation and at their heights the music equivalent of spiritual Hillulah. Originally cut together as a CDR in November of 2004 for a tour with Animal Collective, Hillulah was compiled from live recordings of such performances.

Personally, I like that it was compiled over just three days, because as one might expect, the transitions are at times sketchy, the movements not entirely in-synch. Looseness is its charm. In that sense, Hillulah supplies imperfect (and pretty) off-the-cuff glances at Gang Gang Dance's past, but realistically speaking, it's a documentation for diehards, not curiosity seekers.