February 24: Hit @ The Gutter

Plus my big Pitchfork debut and Ian's new album

Cell layer from alternate “Pure Unreal” single art

Sup everybody,

Hit is playing a show February 24th at the Gutter in Williamsburg (200 N 14th Street, Brooklyn). It’s presented by Our Wicked Lady, and the bill features Will Moloney of Old Table, Cellophane Kiss and Aim for the Bushes. You can get advance tix here.

Tru Hitheads will remember all our triumphs at the old OWL, rocking our unique brand of noise rock and jangle pop to tens of people. Ancient New Yorkers will also recall that time the guy with Ebola went bowling there and they had to shut it down and send in people in hazmat suits. The confluence of these things is surely not to be missed. Plus just think about how freaking epic it will be to see us play at a bowling alley, in a ticketed room separate from the bowling alley part. We’re gonna be like Blues Traveler in Kingpin. I’m gonna gain the weight and everything!

In other news, last week I wrote a review for Pitchfork of the great new Railings album. Depending on whether you’ve maxed out your free articles for the month, you can read it here. I’ve never pitched writing anything before, and have only ever written for Talkhouse thanks to sheer nepotism, so cold emailing Pitchfork on a lark and getting a near-immediate response was a fun surprise. Not sure I’ll try again as the delight of batting 1.000 outweighs any ambition I have, but we’ll see. At any rate, you should check out this album and the whole Railings back catalog, it’s all insanely good and criminally unsung.

You should also check out Ian’s new album Imbue, which Obscure Sound called “an atmospheric gem of an album.” So many great textures and sounds, I think my favorite is “The World’s Funniest Weather.”

Keep Poundin’,

Craig