Hexx Head: Seabeds Cough cassette

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“Seabeds Cough” was written by Allie Coppola and Mike Frazier. Electronic/industrial/EBM from Boston.

Our take: Debut release from this electronic duo from Boston. Im only a dabbler in electronic music, but its been cropping up in the newsletter more and more lately, as there are quite a few releases in this vein that Ive been connecting with. Im not sure if Bostons Hexx Head comes from a punk/hardcore background or if theyve just noticed us stocking bands similar to theirs, but when they hit me up about carrying their tape, I really liked what I heard. Like Boy Harsher, Die Letzten Ecken, and Mandy, Indiana, Hexx Heads music sits at the intersection of noise, dance music, synth-pop, and punk. From punk and hardcore, they take the consistently high energy levels and visceralitytheres a reason people call this electronic body musicand combine it with noise musics dense textures and dance musics beat-forward sounds and structures, topping it off with a touch of synth-pops instrumental hooks. While Hexx Head forces your body to move, theyre often challenging you with off-kilter rhythms, like the stuttering No Fair. I love the steady pulse of Seabeds Cough, but Hexx Head never zones out, their songs inviting your attention rather than testing it. Like I said, Im far from an expert on this stuff, but I really like what I hear here.