Hide Your Daughters – The Teen Girl’s Guide to Social Success
Limited to 300 Compact Discs
Probably my favorite CD I have ever released.
Strong bold statements about love and sex entangled with octopus legs riffage.
LaPlante conjures up medicine man trance that howls to the mystic roots of rock n roll, from back-room juke joints to swamp romps through the bayou. The mad voodoo only starts there as KEN mode Matthewsons are joined again by Electro Quarterstaff savant gentleman, Drew Johnston and newcomer/old accomplice Jahmeel Russell (KITTENS, Red Vienna). They weave a tapestry of hipswingin’ headbangin’ southern rock, discordant noise and provocative lyrical gymnastics.
Check their cover of the Yardbirds “Drinkin’ Muddy Water” for a taste of just how thick it can get.
Listen to “Tomanando Agua Sucia:
12 tracks - 40 minutes -raging southern fried noise rock featuring members of KEN mode, Electro Quarterstaff and KITTENS.
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The story so far
Hide Your Daughters has returned with their second outing, “The Teen Girl’s Guide to Social
Success”. Influences from the master Frank Zappa appear in the opening of
“Chabrol”…“Viking Funeral”; a tribute to Tipton and Downing’s trademark dueling guitar lines
on Priest’s “Never Satisfied” from ’74…tastes of the best of Voivod’s “Nothingface” and
“Dimension Hatross”.
The backing for the freedom and experimentation of this new sound is HYD’s thundering
rhythm section…Russell and Matthewson are simply locked in…rapid-fire tom fills…obsessive
addiction to shattering crash cymbal accents that define the meter…a true backbeat…The
rhythm section paves the way to launch HYD into what they truly are – a guitar driven
band…Matthewson and Johnston regularly trade off completely counter-pointed guitar
lines…there is no designation of “lead” and “rhythm” in this band…their individual guitar lines
are built up side by side as harmonic expansions on the chord changes…vocals are still raw
and pugilistic, but they are also bluesy and remarkably controlled…channeling the likes of
The Seeds, MC-5, and The Stooges.
Great live bands are almost dead. If you’ve never seen Hide Your Daughters, now’s your
chance to hear what you’ve been missing. -J TUCKER