"this is how I win..."
Bullet Point by experimental artist R.M. Hendrix, based out of Boston, Mass creates murals of mystery and danger but at the same time invites you to break out in an avant garde dance with or without jazz hands. Why the need to move wildly? Maybe it is the bass groove that cuts so deep it could forge through concrete and the askew stabs of sound that makes you envision a city with no parallel lines in sight. The blend of sounds feels progressive and tight but also free form as Hendrix spins lyrical webs.
As press notes detail:
His upcoming release, "War Is On Its Way" explores the language of violence and the culture it comes from. The first single, "Bullet Point" follows in the footsteps of classics like Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" and PJ Harvey's "Down By The Water," by getting into the mind of a disgruntled office worker, not as glorification, but as a nightmare. The seven song EP is available worldwide on September 10, 2000 on all streaming services.
It should be a very interesting ride.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
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R.M. Hendrix is from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Originally Dream pop, his sound has evolved to a more immediate style using the textures of noise as song elements, mixing the sensibilities of his past with elements of trip hop and krautrock. His upcoming release, "War Is On Its Way" explores the language of violence and the culture it comes from. The first single, "Bullet Point" follows in the footsteps of classics like Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" and PJ Harvey's "Down By The Water," by getting into the mind of a disgruntled office worker, not as glorification, but as a nightmare. The seven song EP is available worldwide on September 10, 2000 on all streaming services.
The tension is relentless throughout the EP until track 6, a cover of Thom Yorke’s “Unmade” written for the Suspiria soundtrack. It’s telling that a song from a horror film is soothing. “When I first heard Yorke’s song I was overwhelmed with emotion. It’s such a melancholy acknowledgement of everything being broken and yet somehow finding hope with someone,” says Hendrix. “I had to record it myself because I felt it so strongly.” The final track, “A Day Without,” builds on this hope with a song about choice and determination to walk away from the war. Then its done.
Hendrix says, “This record was like a hair in my mouth. It had to come out. I had a library of modular synth experiments that I started chopping into arrangements with short lyrical phrases. It was a way to cope and respond to the zeitgeist. Over time the disconnected experiments took a life of their own, like a warm machine. I tamed the chaos then realized I was singing the blues.”
Reviews of previous releases:
Drowned in Sound listed Urban Turks Country Jerks as one of the top 50 psych/shoegaze albums of 2014. Last Days of Black was named by NYC's Dreamwave as one of the top 25 shoegaze tracks of 2012. Summer Dresses was in Boston Phoenix's top tracks of 2012.
"R.M. Hendrix = In Rainbows–era Radiohead + The Apples in Stereo" Slug Magazine 06/05/14
"A different kind of Summery golden aura, more in step with shoegaze and ’90s pop from here and across the pond." Sunrise Ocean Bender 4/08/14
The Boston Phoenix called "Summer Dresses" "dream-pop fuzz for people just itching to get the f**k outside...that wouldn’t be out of place on a beat-up Maxell mixtape alongside early New Order and the Jesus & Mary Chain." 4/19/12
"Last Days of Black" commences with cool guitar noise loops before a slinky bass enters and clears room for some massive guitar swaths. Just as quickly, Mr. Hendrix's voice comes in, recalling Adam Franklin's effortlessly cool speak-sing in Swervedriver, or even the Brit-affected warbling of Robert Pollard." Clicky Clicky 10/9/12
"Of all of the bands currently playing in the '90s fuzzy inspired style, R.M. Hendrix is easily one of the best. Fans on Guided By Voices, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, Catherine Wheel, and Jesus & Mary Chain." Oklahoma Lefty 9/14/12
"Unlike a lot of folks who claim to represent the sound of underground music in the United States....this guy really does. This short three song EP features three tracks that recall artists like Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, and and early Lilies. Kinda sounds like shoegazers on acid." Baby Sue 10/12
"Combines the best of The Cure, New Order, shoegaze, tweepop/c-86, Sonic Youth, Dinosuar Jr and reaches for the skies like a rocket built on no budget but a sky-high amount of ambition and reaches it." 17 Seconds 04/12
“Sonically, much is borrowed from twee-rock bands like Pains of Being Pure At Heart and fellow, sepia-toned, reverb dealers, Letting Up Despite Great Faults. “Summer Dresses” is an ode to tanned, browned knees, grass-stained feet and a guitar line that bobs forever in the surf like some lost, entirely fecund Robert Smith demo tape.” 32ft/sec 03/2012
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