WE ARE HEXHail the Goer
Roaring Colonel Records
If you want something frothy and cute look elsewhere. We Are Hex’s Hail the Goer is a frantic and scorching follow up to Gloom Gloom. It’s abrasive and boggling in every way, buried in scratchy, end of the world guitar playing and hollow throated wailing and singing. Lead singer Jilly is a crossroads of PJ Harvey and Jim Morrison. That seems weak and lazy to write but Jilly is a vocalist that a listener experiences and witnesses, a memorable and indifferent singer difficult to clarify in a handful of words. We Are Hex are relentless in some of these songs, the result tribal and forceful. Every song seems born from a different mother. From tense opener “Birth of the Mystics” whose Psycho-esque guitar punching drives the song, to album closer “We are the Goer” the band doesn’t let up or consign itself to one through-line musically. “Gold/Silver” is driven by heavy bass lines and guitar notes that spike and echo while “Singer/Tastemaker” is musically nightmarish and gypsy-esque. Jilly seems to choke and grapple with her own vocals here, as if fighting with the music. Hail the Goer is a fantastic album, music that is combustible and hypnotic. Sounding disagreeable and in-your-face unpretentiously really works, a creative blast of dark rock and manic energy.
-Brian Tucker
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