She’s Hit Debut Album ‘Pleasure’: 6th June Single ‘Shimmer Shimmer’: 23rd May
aaamusic | On 30, May 2011
SHe’S HiT
Debut Album ‘Pleasure’: 6th June
Single ‘Shimmer Shimmer’: 23rd May
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Album Launch Show
@ Club Spangle, Bull & Gate, London: 6th June.
Listen to ‘Shimmer Shimmer’ here:
“She’s Hit are one of the finest garage rock acts of the age. This is simply one of the best British debuts of the last five years” – Artrocker 5/5
“Fantastically energetic indie punk from a band who sound like the ungodly sons of The Cramps and the Jesus & Mary Chain. One Day all bands will be made this way” – The Devil Has The Best Tuna
“She’s Hit are a hugely exciting prospect” – Record of the Day
“Raw, trashy post-punk in honest thrall to The Fall. It’s great” – The List
“It doesn’t come a lot better than this: a massive wall of noise constructed from prefabricated slabs of Jesus and Mary Chain, Suicide and The Cramps. Shrill guitar, deep, pounding drums and mono-toned vocals drenched in reverb are the basic components! So what’s not to like?! “ – Artrocker
“Visceral quartet SHe’S HiT have definitely hit the button. A spewing throb of clanging guitar and bombastic percussion, their nasal art-punk endeavours sneer out like The Fall sodomising The Cramps at their most ragged. SHe’S HiT will outlast the blogosphere’s hype.” – Drowned In Sound
“SHe’S HiT create a stunning sound.. It’s so dirty you want to roll around in it in some display of base animalism. It’s unashamedly noisy but utterly irresistible” – The 405
While it’s a cliché to tag every new band with the ‘one to watch’ tag, SHe’S HiT can’t be discussed without stating the glaringly obvious – they are one of the most exciting bands to have emerged from the UK in years.
Turning up amps, reverb and two fingers to fey in their hometown known for Belle and Sebastian’s indie-folk, SHe’S HiT’s “blistering live outings” – Drowned in Sound, earned them a devoted following and a much justified buzz, long before their first release.
In October last year, SHe’S HiT unleashed their debut single ‘RE:PEATER’ – a split 7” with fellow Glaswegians Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lockpickers – released via their own label of the same name. Artrocker and Drowned in Sound immediately hailed them as one of Scotland’s best emerging bands and the “killer post-punk, art-rock audio assault” – Subba-Cultcha, of ‘RE:PEATER’ and its accompany video is firing up the blogosphere still.
Recalling some of the greatest bands on Earth: The Fall, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cramps, SHe’S HiT’s debut album ‘Pleasure’ is nothing short of a classic. Spanning the wide musical spectrum, from the psychedelic droner Velvet Underground-esque closing track ‘Forfeit to Despair’ and ‘Lustless’ with its dreamy distortion and stoner vocals akin to My Bloody Valentine or The Big Pink, to ‘Miriam Hollow’ with an instrumental opener as powerful as Joy Divisions ‘Digital’. Then there’s the singles, the aforementioned ’RE:PEATER’ where pounding drums and frenzied organ riffs blast out a heart-speeding audio assault as startlingly brilliant as any offering from The Cramps and the sleazed-up slinky forthcoming single ‘Shimmer Shimmer’ recalling Iggy Pop and the Stooges. All laced with SHe’S HiT’s distinctive snarled out vocals sounding like a brittle, punk-rock Mark E Smith.
‘Pleasure’ was recorded at The Green Door Studio with Sam Smith (Alasdair Roberts, Remember Remember, Sons & Daughters, 1990s) and mastered by Iain Cook of Unwinding Hours / Aereogramme. All ten album tracks have been remixed by Errors, The Blessings (LuckyMe), The Unwinding Hours, Remember Remember, Auntie Flo, Fox Gut Daata, Dam Mantle, Green Door & Frog Pocket with the remixes being included on the Bonus Edition of the CD.
P.T.O
‘Pleasure’ is out on 6th June on 12” vinyl with aforementioned Bonus CD Remix Album, Double CD and digital download. Catalogue no: RPR014.
‘Shimmer Shimmer’ precedes the album on the 23rd May, released on 7” vinyl and digital download. Catalogue no. RPR011
Both are released on SHe’S HiT’s label RE:PEATER RECORDS.
To celebrate the release of ‘Pleasure’ SHe’S HiT play Club Spangle @ London’s Bull & Gate on 6th June. Full live dates below.
21st May: Stag & Dagger, Glasgow (venue TBC)
6th June: Club Spangle @ Bull & Gate, London
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