Exit Dreams, by The Hunches

Exit Dreams

by The Hunches

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1.	Actors 03:02	buy track
2.	Ate My Teeth 02:46	buy track
3.	Not Invited 03:35	buy track
4.	Deaf Ambitions 03:04	buy track
5.	From This Window 04:32	buy track
6.	Carnival Debris 02:17	buy track
7.	Street Sweeper 04:07	buy track
8.	Your Sick Blooms 02:23	buy track
9.	Pinwheel Spins 02:50	buy track
10.	Fall Drive 02:41	buy track
11.	Unraveling 05:19	buy track
12.	Swim Hole 03:50	buy track

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The Hunches are Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering ragged-edged rock 'n' roll with such devastating hidden melody, one is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades. Having released two previous full-lengths, The Hunches are back with Exit Dreams, their third (and possibly final) album that captures their fiery live form on wax once more.

It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery and lo-fi freak-out fugginess, the perfect follow-up to Hobo Sunrise--a raging riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, and shot-to-shit synapses sizzling with amplified excess.

Not that Exit Dreams is a one-dimensional thrill. There's much more to The Hunches than simple shock bombast. Over the course of twelve tracks, the outfit navigates styles known to explorers of under-the-radar rock, each time twisting the tried-and-true into forms best-fitting their singular focus. This is The Birthday Party hijacking Big Star's Third and juicing adrenaline into their eyeballs; it's the give-a-fuck Velvets getting loose and pissing off the neighbors while The Wipers chuck stones at their windows; it's the top-up for the tinnitus that only just wore off some four years after the last time The Hunches rode through this town.

The Hunches might be departing us, but the four-piece are leaving with a bang sure to raze these walls to the ground. It's time to set fire to everything and dance inside the encircling flames, facing fate with a wicked grin.

"[The Hunches] blast extremely hard, post-core, thrash-noise chunklets into The Cramps' platonic framework, add vocal weirdness, strange raunch-ballad action, and really knuckle the whole mess into a bloody pulp. They even cover the Electric Eels' "Accident." And the result are one helluva beautiful wreck."

--Mojo

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released January 20, 2009

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