DETAILS
TRACKS
Side A
- In the Beginning
- Against Electricity
- The Most Beautiful Music the World Has Ever Known
- Banner of Light
- Theme from Astral Weeks 1968
- I Saw You Coming from the Cape
- In the Space Between the Worlds
- A Little More Light Into the Darkness of Man
- Paul Revere is Shamed
- Scenes from the Real World
Side B
- Something in the Bricks
- The Silver Age of Television
- We Have All Been Astrals Many Times
- Some Dreams Are Nightmares
- Rayrunner
- Marsh Chapel Miracle
- Automatic Writing
- Afterwards
RELEASE DATE
02/22/2019
Vinyl & CD editions are limited to 100 hand numbered copies each. All orders receive an instant download of the entire album.
When Ryan Walsh asked Penguin Random House what music they'd be using between chapters for the audiobook version of his debut book, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, he found the answer unsatisfying. "They told me they had some generic orchestral music that they usually used a snippet of at the beginning and end of the book," Walsh said. "This is a rock n roll story. That wasn't gonna cut it." That's when Hallelujah The Hills—Walsh's long-running, award-winning band from Boston, MA—sprang into action, recording over an hour of original music for the project. "Probably a total of five minutes of that music appears in the final product, and it did its job well, but we feel that this stuff is good enough to stand on its own merit as well."
Enter Against Electricity, the sixth full length HTH album, and certainly the first one without any words. This is instrumental music, both composed and improvised, and it is among the band's strangest and most beautiful. During these sessions The Hills added Dave Curry (Thalia Zedek Band, Willard Grant Conspiracy) to the lineup on viola, as well as inviting friends to appear on the recordings as well, including Tanya Donelly (Belly), Dana Colley (Morphine), Marissa Nadler, and Fenway Park organist Josh Kantor. "It's a book about Boston," Walsh noted of the lineup, "so even the players needed to reflect that for this project."
This is multi-purpose music that is unlike anything in the ever-growing Hallelujah The Hills discography. Find your own personal uses for these magnetic new set of songs as the band works on their seventh record, set for release late spring 2019, entitled I'm You.
EXPLORE

Gabadon
On Gabadon

Boxhead Ensemble
Ancient Music

Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O'Neil
For All We Know

Blue Cranes
My Only Secret

Johanna Samuels
Bystander

Califone
villagers

Jenny Conlee
Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano

The Hackles
What a beautiful thing I have made

The Hackles
Song For The Fool

Eyelids
A Colossal Waste Of Light

The Delines
The Lost Duets

Jon Brion
Meaningless

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light

No. 2
First Love

José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

Dave Depper
Moon Safari

Federale
Our Side Of Their Story

Adam Selzer
Slow Decay

The Delines
The Sea Drift

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Desert Rebel + Turning The Corner

Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK

Eyelids
Eyelids Dubble Live!

Chris Funk
Songs For Dog Fitness

Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records Bundle

Longstocking
Singles & Demos: 1994-1998

Infinite X's
Infinite X's

Longstocking
Once Upon A Time Called Now

Dave Depper
Europa

The Hackles
Making Baby Keys In The Darkness + Houses

Califone
Needle In The Hay + Crazy As A Loon

Jeff London
Trouble Trust

Motrik
Artificial Head

Slanted Floors
Pink Heaven

Chris Funk
The Painted Porch

No. 2
You Might Be Right

Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O'Neil
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Eyelids
The Accidental Falls

John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids
Turning Time Around EP

Califone
Echo Mine

The Delines
Eight Floors Up

The Hackles
A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should

Federale
No Justice

Defective AI
A Book Of Coherent Warnings

Team Dresch
Your Hands My Pockets

Eyelids
Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids Sings Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids

Old Unconscious
Lyle

Eamon Fogarty
Blue Values

Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000
