Howling Hex / Wilson Semiconductors

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THE HOWLING HEX, Wilson Semiconductors: one guitar, four songs, a multitrack recording unit. Out of the desert and into the mountains, The Howling Hex are at large once again, upping the ante by lowering the body count this time around. Recorded and mastered at Sonic Ranch in the tiny township of Tornillo, a border town in El Paso County, Wilson Semiconductors is a pure strain of The Howling Hex—a Hex of one, one NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY, who did everything on the record after the writing, which was shared in spots with longtime Hex-mate MIKE SIGNS. Alone at the wheel don’t necessarily want for company though—with time and space on his hands, Hagerty rolls out elegant norteño bass lines and then vocals and guitars that mesh like homemade gears with the beat. Despite the unbending pace, something seems to be melting as if the merry-go-round done broke down—but that’s just the sound of you hearing the music, a common by-product of The Howling Hex listening experience.

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