Profile: Holy Hail

Are you keeping up with the debates?  Like some politics in your pop music? Well Holy Hail are chiming in with their debut album opener, Elemental:

I’m aching. Elemental
Set for tracks to be guided yet hostile
The sun and the moon have conspired against me
My only true recess – pursuing insanity

Save my mama and save my place
Junior cries just to save his face
To being, been seeing. Heathens,
In my place of being

Fortress of the soul to brood
That old cheap sunset – solitude.
In the cave of my home rooms the truth
That old cheap sunset – solitude.

We took our cues from the high almighty
By that I mean the colonel man
He gave us ten commandments
Fighting wars in a desert land
My mind’s made up, I want to get out (2x)

Be my. Tell my. Show my. Send my people back (4x)

Dear Betty, did I take your true and sweet lone heart?
To the sea, my decree, that takes me from my liberty?
Did I spell my deeds in sorrow sand?
To kill and sleep and learn the land?
To soak in bloody cloaks
That shakes and takes and aches the folks?

Simple son of the mother gun
The air our share of breeze and sun
Encased my stain in sleeted sleep on streets of rain and slick and sleet
Too shy to die and weep at feet of horses brave and sick of meat
Retrograde degrade the salt of wounded knee,  the march to halt
The fault of hell, my fine decline. So languid, not aware of time.

More album lyrics here: http://www.kaninerecords.com/promos/hh_lyrics2.pdf

In between touring Europe, first with New Young Pony Club then with Bonde Do Role, and gigging in Mexico, Holy Hail made their debut album, “Independent Pleasure Club,” to be released November 11th, 2008 on Kanine Records.
 
Fusing pop, hip-hop, new wave, and electro with an occasional country twang, Holy Hail creates one rollicking dance party.  But don’t mistake them for your average dance band: a good portion of these tracks is strewn with political undertones.  The album opener tackles the Iraq war and at album close, the south’s big catastrophe Hurricane Katrina. In the middle, references are made to the environment, wire tapping, and the American-Indian genocide. It’s not heavy handed; most unsuspecting audiences dance completely unaware of the politically charged lyrical content. Mixing in tracks with more lighthearted themes like Las Vegas and NYC, Holy Hail’s always-upbeat dance-rock covers both the promises of America, as well as its sprawling dark side.

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