Hallelujah the Hills, "Collective Psychosis Begone"

Posted almost 5 years ago
I've been really enjoying this demented campfire sing-along from Hallelujah the Hills. Here's a bit from my Dusted review, up today: "Two guys from the now sadly defunct Stairs (guitarist/songwriter Ryan Walsh and drummer Eric Miller) make up the core of Hallelujah the Hills, a lo-fi but baroque indie pop outfit whose homespun mind-freakery may recall, off and on, bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Guided By Voices, and the Chicago songwriter Devin Davis (who, fittingly enough, headlined the band’s very first show in Boston). Stairs won notoriety for recording its first full-length on a grant from the Dedham (MA) Visionary Access Program and, under the terms of the funding, incorporated the voices and instruments of half the surrounding town. Collective Psychosis operates under no such constraint, but it has the same kind of overstuffed, everybody-let’s-put-on-a-show exuberance. As an album, it is charming, disarming and heart-warming, if not exactly polished – full of fragmentary lyrics and unstoppable choruses, everything submerged under a thick layer of fuzz. " (More here: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3735)

Comments (1)

  1. newusedrecords says I am not familiar with Stairs, but I really liked this song. The guitar first had me thinking Violent Femmes, but then the fuzzy vocals and especially the horns made it totally something different. Unique and interesting and a great song. I shall have to check out more. Great review, as well.
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