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By Grouch Rating 5 Scowls Humanish - Debut Album
Humanish - Debut Album
Saturday, 21 January 2012 15:11 | 
Author: The Grouch | 
The other day I received an email from the manager of the Brazilian Band Humanish inviting me to give their debut album a listen.
I did.
I hope you will too.
Here is the vital information, should you decide to stop reading here.
The band's website is www.humanish.com.br from there you can download the album for FREE.
OK, you have to give up your name and email address, but so what? Use a throwaway address if you are
worried about spam.
The bottom line is this is one of the very best albums I've heard in a long time.
I'll quote from the email I received, describing the band:
"Humanish combines fine textures, distortion, swing and synthesizers. All influenced by bands like Morphine, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin and mixed with a touch of brazilian percussive music."
That really does sum it up. Listening to Humanish brought to mind my Middle School band teacher.
(Hey, Mr. Case if you are still out there somewhere.) He had a phrase he'd use when he was particularly happy with our performance. "Man, you cats can groove."
About Humanish I can only say, man those cats can groove.
Listen to the album and you'll hear a troupe of solid players who all know their job and do it well.
The singer has a great voice. It's so good that the fact that most of the lyrics are in Portuguese doesn't bother me in the least. I have no idea what he is singing about most of the time, but I hear what they are laying down and it just doesn't matter that I can't understand the lyrics.
They have a synthesizer player who makes me smile and that is saying something because so often I just really find a synthesizer annoying.
Combine those two with a guitar that absolutely rocks, horns that exude soul and a rock solid rhythm section and you have some serious magic.
Their music goes from hard-assed rock and roll track 5 O Santo o pro to Funky Swing track 4 Tanto to synth in the lead jams track 1 Algum dia na me. The thing is that they all sound really good.
Check these guys out!
Grouch rating 5 out of 5 scowls and a spot on my favorites' list.
I did.
I hope you will too.
Here is the vital information, should you decide to stop reading here.
The band's website is www.humanish.com.br from there you can download the album for FREE.
OK, you have to give up your name and email address, but so what? Use a throwaway address if you are
worried about spam.
The bottom line is this is one of the very best albums I've heard in a long time.
I'll quote from the email I received, describing the band:
"Humanish combines fine textures, distortion, swing and synthesizers. All influenced by bands like Morphine, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin and mixed with a touch of brazilian percussive music."
That really does sum it up. Listening to Humanish brought to mind my Middle School band teacher.
(Hey, Mr. Case if you are still out there somewhere.) He had a phrase he'd use when he was particularly happy with our performance. "Man, you cats can groove."
About Humanish I can only say, man those cats can groove.
Listen to the album and you'll hear a troupe of solid players who all know their job and do it well.
The singer has a great voice. It's so good that the fact that most of the lyrics are in Portuguese doesn't bother me in the least. I have no idea what he is singing about most of the time, but I hear what they are laying down and it just doesn't matter that I can't understand the lyrics.
They have a synthesizer player who makes me smile and that is saying something because so often I just really find a synthesizer annoying.
Combine those two with a guitar that absolutely rocks, horns that exude soul and a rock solid rhythm section and you have some serious magic.
Their music goes from hard-assed rock and roll track 5 O Santo o pro to Funky Swing track 4 Tanto to synth in the lead jams track 1 Algum dia na me. The thing is that they all sound really good.
Check these guys out!
Grouch rating 5 out of 5 scowls and a spot on my favorites' list.