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Review: 'Hot Sauce Pony / Gaygirl'
'Split 7"'   

-  Label: 'Brixton Hillbilly Record Club'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '7th November 2016'

Our Rating:
The split single has long been an effective way of giving a taste of a label and the acts on its roster, or otherwise to offer something different as a one-off, with contrasting, complimentary or collaborative works. This is the first release from the Brixton Hillbilly Record Club. The name itself doesn’t give too much by way of expectation, and the bands featured have pretty lame names. But the label’s ethos is admirable: ‘A record label built out of need, out of love & out of pocket to bring you the sounds of the town we love. Bank rolled by the good people of Brixton Hill Studios… No agenda so to speak of, other than “we like you, we like your tunes.”’ So, a stable for yeehaa country, it ain’t.

Hot Sauce Pony are pitched as exponents of ambient avant hard. The actuality is that ‘Fenced In’ is two minutes of fuzzed-out punky pop bliss. It’s spiky, raw and utterly perfect.

Gaygirl’s ‘Dance to Death’ is a dark, hypnotic vaguely gothy shoegazer reminiscent of Pain Teens. Dreamy, trance-inducing and haunting, yet still pop (albeit firmly in the alternative category), it’s explodes into a kaleidoscopic crescendo of light.

If this is any measure of what’s going down in Brixton right now, these are exciting times.


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Hot Sauce Pony / Gaygirl - Split 7