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| The new limited edition live album "NEW SPIRITUALS” is released on November the 10th and will be available from any half decent record store through NOISESTAR_MUSIC distributed by FORTE
+ Click image above to buy online + The debut album titled "WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?” is available now from any half decent record store through ROCKET RECORDINGS
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+ COMING LIVE SHOWS +
+ PREVIOUS SHOWS +
Live at THE DIRTY WATER CLUB, 29th Feb 2008
ROCKET RECORDINGS 10th anniversary show, 16th Apr 2008
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PRESS + "NEW SPIRITUALS" " 4/5 - Here's a vinyl only stopgap of radio sessions to whet your appetite for the second album, due next year, from our premier psychedelic swap-rock torchbearers, The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers. A steroid-enhanced rip through the 13th Floor Elevators' Reverberation (Doubt) evidences the group's familiarity with acid rock's first wave, but the superdense, late-1980s sounds of Spacemen 3 and Loop have been snaffled along the way, and burnished with battery-acid blues licks. This heady mix sounds as if it was sunbaked somewhere on the Texas border, but in fact it percolated up through the drizzle of south London. And there's more coming soon." -Stewart Lee, Sunday Times Culture Magazine "When I first received this album to review I thought “what an awful name”, and then in the judgemental way that is expected of simple human nature, especially that of the English, I then decided they were going to a) be definitely awful and b) sound like what I describe as a “pub rock” band that compromised of 15/16 year olds. Well, I was wrong. Really f*cking wrong. Instead, these guys make intelligent, lo-fi, indie rock a là The Stooges, Part Chimp and definitely Comets on Fire, maybe even with some Flipper or The Catheters thrown in. Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, despite the name, are an intelligent bunch of music makers, it seems. Unfortunately, it is nigh on impossible to find any details on them as far as their backgrounds go, so they are a bit of an enigma wrapped in a question mark, but who cares? This album, recorded live to tape during a tour as a “companion” to their debut ‘Which Side Are You On?’, is a good mixture of rock, blues, distortion pedals and the rawness a lot of bands lack these days." - Subba Cultcha
"WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?" "Hi-fi is dead. Well, at least that's what the name of this UK band suggests, and indeed, The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers embrace the lo-fi aesthetic with not just enthusiasm, but with downright aggression. With their amps turned up to 11 and the distortion pedals on maximum overdrive, the band jumps and crunches through a number of punk influenced originals with titles such as Lost in the Modern World, Queen O' Fuck and Stars Explode, as well as a pretty decent cover of Freddie King's Going Down. This is not metal, mind you, but it is explosive, raw, energetic music, stripped of any fancy modern production, just basic, down n' dirty rock n' roll. The band does have some psychedelic/space rock aspirations though, too, as can be heard in the somewhat mellower She Plays With Light and Crystal Roses, and especially in the 16-minute opus, Near the Final Destination. Here the band stretches out, filling their sound with lots of loopy effects, shimmering guitar notes, druggy vocals and even some horns, sliding from a march-like mantra to a free jazz-like stew of swirling sonic craziness. It's a bit of a strange contrast to what has come before, but ends up being my favourite track on the album. Personally, I would have preferred to have heard more of the freakiness, less of the punk-like influences. Infusing their rockers with a bit of psychedelic weirdness, as they are obviously quite capable of (and interested in), would have made for a bit stronger album, in my opinion. Still, if you are tired of a lot of over-produced, slick rock like you hear so much of in the mainstream these days, The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers are a welcome breath of fresh air. I just hope they embrace their psychedelic side a little bit more on future releases." - Aural Innovations "Completing a trio of UK based guitar destruction, The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, get everything right on their debut album "Which side are you on?" Kicking off with the Stooge like riff/drone of "National Crisis", the band blaze their way through the next 50 minutes, with highlights including the short and definitely not sweet "Queen'o'Fuck", the slow-motion confusion of "The Distance Between Us", and the Sabbath inspired ""Feel Like I'm Fading Away". Best of all however is the 16 minute head-fuck of "Near the Final Destination", a practically perfect mix of the Doors epic tendencies, the Stooges noise aesthetics and Spacemen 3's Psychedelic visions, the song slowly imploding into a welter of drones, skronking horns and general madness." - Terrascope "Whilst most sleazy rock bands belt out great immediate songs that are ultimately disposable, this London three piece go the long way round and just mutate what, at the heart of their sound , is fuzzy go ahead rock , and twist it in to a myriad of shapes that create a rather unique whole. If you start taking note of what bands come to mind as you listen to Which Side Are you on? You’ll soon run out of paper, since there is so much interweaved in these twelve songs that you’ll just end up scratching everything off and writing a big fat Notorious Hi Fi Killers on the What They Sound Like and be done with it. There’s the hard hitting Motorhead bass groove of ‘Don’t Wanna Know’ , there’s the trippy psychedelia of the enormous Near The Final Destination, the far away sounding ambience of The Distance Between Us, the Melvins esque crushing swagger of Feels Like I’m Fading Away , and the pure Black Sun nasty sludge destruction of Queen O Fuck, All this is just scratching the surface, as the whole thing is enveloped in a hazy mist that is both classic Sabbath and vintage Kyuss, giving the albums songs a common thread that prevents them from disassociating from each other due the wildly different directions they point in. If you want something that’s intelligent and original but which at the same time is immediate and nods wisely to the past classics, The Notorious Hi Fi Killers are your men" - Rock-A-Rolla "8/10 - ...the final victims are The Notorious Hi Fi Killers who have emerged from South East London with their debut album ‘Which Side Are You On?’, a psychedelic mixed bag of a record that crosses so many genres it is hard to know where to place it. The album starts with a fuzzy ‘Dragonaut-esque’ bass and vocal sound that is totally turned on it’s head as the album moves through the bluesy garage rock of tracks like ‘Lost In The Modern World’ to tracks like ‘Don’t Wanna Know’ that have a spoken word Motorhead feel to them. All this variety leaves little room for boredom and is either a source of pure genius or the product of a talented band with ADD."- Terrorizer "4/5 - These south London compatriots of Part Chimp, Duke Garwood and Alexander Tucker – all of whom guest here – finally kick out some biker-psych power trio jams in the studio. Mondo heavy blues collide with superfuzz space rockers, culminating in the heroically dilated Near The Final Destination." - Mojo "9/10 - Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if The Sonics fed their guitarists Kyuss steak sandwiches and Eyehategod bongwater all day just to see what would happen? Me too! Turns out the results have been hiding in southeast London the whole time behind a silly name and a wall of Big Muff distortion pedals." - Vice Magazine “Which Side Are You On? mixes sludge rock with monsterSabbath riffs and epic, Elevators-style freak outs.It's a hell of a trip, tight and explosive, then suddenly dubbed out and loose." - The Stool Pigeon "7/10 - While brownie points can be awarded for their distinctive psychedelic vision, this debut by the London trio is no easy listen. This is dark, murky rock n roll at its most ferocious, with oddly dilapidated production values. For fans of uncompromising and dirty music." - Rock Sound "They do just what you’d expect a band called The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers to do – or do they? What would you expect anyway? Who expects what? Who are these notorious people? People from Joeyfat, Princess Headbutt, people who’ve been around London in various bands doing various things for a while now. Moody smouldering edgy raw moody garage blues that’s nailed on and direct when it wants to be, psychedelia that goes right out (beyond) there when it has a mind to. They’re timeless, they could be from anytime in the last thirty or so years - no, that’s wrong, they sound like now, like the musical melting pot that is right now. They’re not afraid of a fifteen minute smouldering mindwarp down the river behind the lines (where Charlie don’t surf). There’s Beefeaters on the back cover, who knows why? Dirty filthy guitars, dirty filthy acid blues, who knows which side they’re on, who went in to the DMZ? North London? Which side are you on?" - Organ "Imagine MC5 taking a stab at Spacemen 3 or Blue Cheer doing Loop and you're close to what London's The Notorious Hifi Killers offer up on their debut album. "Which Side Are You On?" will be coming out on Rocket Recordings, a label whose pedigree you can trust when it comes to blown-out psych and burly fuzz. The band has a killer, fuzzed-out guitar sound propelling their heavy-blues edge, but they also sport a primal rock-n-roll /stoned / psychedelic side. The track "Near The Final Destination" is a stellar example of the Hifi Killer's take on psychedelic bliss -- thanks to the added assistance of Alexander Tucker, Duke Garwood and members of Part Chimp, while "Queen O' Fuck and "Don't Want To Know" showcase their penchant for ferocious biker-punk anthems." - Roadburn "We just got this bands' new album in .... in fact we just finished listening to it ... Ladies and germs this slab has rocked us in the nicest possible way. Overloaded backline, free jazz, mantras, big frikkn Blue Cheer/ Sabbath riffs, and weird rock jams are all over this thing ... so stop sulking about the poxy Led Zeppelin gig and ready your headphones for a what sounds like a jouney into the darkest recesses of Lemmy's head when he first heard John Coltrane's Ascension on downers'n'speed." - TTYC website "6/10 - Honestly, is someone
breeding these type of bands? S/T 7" "Loud, saturated psychedelic rock from England, doing a good and pretty novel job of crossing up the kind of throttling, manic psychedelia of Oneida with nodding-off blooz riffage and weighty, ponderous tempos. Quite a weird combination, but it works, if only on the strength and force applied in getting it out. The songs just hang there, filling up all the space in the room, and it's a big room. More or less a cross-section of Heavy London, with requisite grebo tendencies (check the 13th Floor Elevators cover) and the painful, violent qualities of Part Chimp. Skirts the fence between loud indie and legitimate psychedelia quite nicely, and its runtime is long enough for you to get a good feeling for this lot. Limited edition of 300 copies, on thick black vinyl." - Dusted Magazine "7/10 - Scratchy sound on
this four-track 7” – i.e. it has four songs across its
twin sides, not that it was recorded on a four-track – can’t
disguise the fact that London’s The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers
are true brutes; their awesome sonic strength might be mildly diluted
here, but it nevertheless echoes their live force. "Who? A London band specializing in psychedelic layers of fuzz, sludge, and filth. Sounds about right. How Is It? Well, I’ll tell you one thing: this ain’t hi-fi. The band distorts everything so much that it’s hard to tell what the emphasis of each song should be. Still, the reformed metal riff on “A Prayer For The Modern Man” cuts through the static-drenched vocals without difficulty. And the chugging, heavy riff on “Horny & Broke” recalls Mouth of the Architect, but where screams would follow, there is only wasted noise. As a limited pressing of heavy vinyl, these four songs could be a cool collectors novelty. Oh, you only collect locks of hair? Don’t bother with this." - Absolute Punk "They're cunts, I didn't like them." - boss_kitty blog "As a limited edition EP, this fuzzed up slab of sheer sonic audaciousness needs to be heard, and now! Fuck 300 copies, this should be thrown in with the national curriculum, it'd certainly help stamp out the stranglehold Girls Aloud have on our impressionable youth! With the monolithic, near teutonic riffage of Todd via the feedback drenched psychedelia of My Blood Valentine, The dirge like pace recalling Part Chimp at their filthiest! This'd be a deserved addition to the fabulous In Te Red Records roster! Genius!" - Subba Cultcha "... speakers appear to seize under the weight, the heaviness, of the incumbent guitar parts. Well that may not entirely be the case but it is a damn heavy riff. It just drags like an elephant trying to escape a tar pit. Or a child being taken to the dentist against their will. Or something like that. Vocally this is close to Wino, indeed there even a bit of Obsessed chug going on, but mainly the instrumentation is, somewhat strangely reminiscent of Sea of Green circa Northern Lights. Whatever the comparisons this is badass. Jump on it quick." - Rock-A-Rolla “4 TRACK DEBUT 7" SLAB OF ROCK ACTION FROM THIS LONDON BUNCH OF HEAVY SCUZZ ROCKERS. REALLY HEAVY PSYCHED OUT FUZZ NOISE STOMP IN THE VEIN OF PART CHIMP (BUT MORE GARAGEY) OR THE HEADS (BUT MORE MELVINSEY) IF YOU GET OUR DRIFT, A CRACKING DEBUT, AND ONE OF THE TRACKS IS A 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS COVER VERSION..500 ONLY, GET EM WHILST THEY'RE HOT!! “ - FORTE “ NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS – Into The Light (Noisestar) Four slices of very heavy old school primitive reverberating blues drenched in super fuzzing heavy authentic psychedelic progressive fuzz and the debut release from London's trend-obliterating wall of noise makers, nothing new, nothing revolutionary, but then who said it had to be? An aggressively positive old school sound should you want it. Limited edition 7”, 300 copies” - Organ |
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