Weed Hounds take a few ingredients that I always enjoy (sweet-sounding female vocals, blissed-out guitar, the odd noisy breakdown and a healthy dose of feedback) and mix them together into a kind of indie-poppy shoegazy concoction. And, much like a good pasta sauce, the whole is a lot more than the sum of its parts. So far they've released a couple of singles (one of them a split with similarly slack rockers Dude Japan) and a four-track demo, but they've just played what they described as their last show before finishing their lp, which is coming out soonish on Katorga Works.
Entirely predictably, I'm really excited. I love this stuff. The demo's great, four songs (which don't all sound too similar either) combining classic nineties broken-glass fuzz with understated twee-ish vocals. Sort of like a bubblegum version of the Swirlies, or what it feels like when you wake up still a little bit drunk, but it's a Sunday so it doesn't matter.
You can download the demo in its entirety from their tumblr.
And here's a video of them playing in a barn (with pretty excellent sound for a live youTube vid):
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