Hairdryer Peace

by The Hospitals

Hairdryer Peace cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 April 2008
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:37
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating at the absolute outer limits of lo-fi recording aesthetics, Adam Stonehouse's noise-rock project delivers a viscerally abrasive, chaotic assault. The album buries primitive garage punk structures underneath blown-out tape distortion, screeching feedback, and clattering, disjointed percussion. It became a definitive, highly polarizing artifact of the late-2000s 'shitgaze' movement, celebrated for its uncompromising ugliness.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, noisy, lo-fi, dissonant, atonal, experimental, deconstructed, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Hairdryer Peace (3:26)
  2. Getting Out Of Bed (1:48)
  3. Rules For Being Alive (3:04)
  4. Ape Lost (2:02)
  5. This Walls (2:33)
  6. Sour Hawaii (1:48)
  7. Smeared Thinking (1:51)
  8. Teams (2:13)
  9. Animals Act Natural (3:39)
  10. Me, A Ceiling Fan (1:00)
  11. BPPV (2:24)
  12. Dream Damage (1:45)
  13. Scan The Floor For Food (1:52)
  14. Don't Die (1:12)

Credits

  • The Hospitals - primary artist
  • Rod Meyer - electric guitar
  • Chris Gunn - electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Rob Enbom - electric guitar, bass

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