ALBUM REVIEW: Hey Colossus – Dances/Curses

Wrong Speed Records

Released: 03.11.20

Dances/Curses feels like the culmination of the explorations begun around Cuckoo: a double-album of absolutely thrilling music, full of the lurch-worthy bangers that we love but continuing the opening out of their sound heard on Four Bibles. There’s vocal harmonies and gorgeous guitar refrains and post-hardcore churn and chiming post-punk and even some catchy psych.

The absolutely IMMENSE A Trembling Rose is the motherlode of course, sixteen minutes of surging waves of genuinely beautiful guitar noise, perhaps their greatest moment yet and already a live highlight. There’s even a fine Mark Lanegan guest vocal on The Mirror, which will hopefully show people what some of us knew all along – that Hey Colossus are the most essential guitar band in the country.