After relentless touring in North America and Europe, a full length album as well as highly received split EPs with punk mainstays, Hot Cross and Transistor Transistor on the mighty Level Plane record label, Virginia's post-punk, dance floor rockers, LIGHT THE FUSE AND RUN finally came home, put their instruments to rest and called it quits. Months later, in fall 2003, former 'Fuse bassist Jeffrey Byers joined forces with old friends, John Hall and Brian Turke and Richmond newbies Brandon Peck and Tyler Worley to create WOW, OWLS!.
WOW, OWLS! spent the better part of 2004 gathering international attention for their self-released demo EP, performing along the eastern seaboard, and all the while, fine tuning their raw, dynamic and explosive hardcore-oriented music. In December 2004, they recorded their debut full length, "Pick Your Patterns" with Richmond's Jason Laferrera, engineer of past albums by VCR, GREGOR SAMSA and STOP IT!!. "Pick Your Patterns" was released April 11th, 2005.
This nine song album is highly recommended to fans of everything from early Fugazi, Antioch Arrow and Born Against, to more contemporary underground artists such as City Of Caterpillar, Circle Takes The Square, Hot Cross and early Blood Brothers.
Praise for 'Pick Your Patterns':
"The best thing to happen to heavy music in a long time." -PUNK PLANET
"Wow, Owls! are the postmodern, post-rock poster boys for a generation brought up on punk and let down by all that followed it. 8/10" - ROCKSOUND MAGAZINE
"The most solid debut we've seen arrive this year yet... Somewhere there's an unwritten list of bands praised left and right for making mercurially intense and creative hardcore-oriented music. Whoever's mentioned, it only seems fair that if not now then later, Wow, Owls! would receive acknowledgment." - PUNKNEWS.ORG
"This combustible Richmond, Va. indie/hardcore mob packs a peripatetic density to the nearly half-hour 'Pick Your Patterns.' Compressed into an airless, lo-fi production, these nine songs are volatile, unceasing and given to jerky turns with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer between the eyes." - INDIANA JOURNAL REVIEW
"Great choons, rammed with energy and the essential lashings of full-bore melody that ensures it doesn't all dissolve into a mess of shit that you forget the instant that the record is over. Fine, fine album." - COLLECTIVE ZINE (UK)
"Don't miss out on your new favorite local band." - EXODUSTER.COM
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.theperpetualmotionmachine.com
Track List:
1. 1989: The Best Four Years Of My Life
2. Your New Favorite Song
3. Five Sexy Alligators, Please
4. Destination: Pizza
5. I'll Be Your Huckleberry
6. Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem
7. Chris, Did You Ruin The Dance Party
8. Saccarine For My Sweetie
9. Nominative Was the Case They Gave Me
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
WOW, OWLS! spent the better part of 2004 gathering international attention for their self-released demo EP, performing along the eastern seaboard, and all the while, fine tuning their raw, dynamic and explosive hardcore-oriented music. In December 2004, they recorded their debut full length, "Pick Your Patterns" with Richmond's Jason Laferrera, engineer of past albums by VCR, GREGOR SAMSA and STOP IT!!. "Pick Your Patterns" was released April 11th, 2005.
This nine song album is highly recommended to fans of everything from early Fugazi, Antioch Arrow and Born Against, to more contemporary underground artists such as City Of Caterpillar, Circle Takes The Square, Hot Cross and early Blood Brothers.
Praise for 'Pick Your Patterns':
"The best thing to happen to heavy music in a long time." -PUNK PLANET
"Wow, Owls! are the postmodern, post-rock poster boys for a generation brought up on punk and let down by all that followed it. 8/10" - ROCKSOUND MAGAZINE
"The most solid debut we've seen arrive this year yet... Somewhere there's an unwritten list of bands praised left and right for making mercurially intense and creative hardcore-oriented music. Whoever's mentioned, it only seems fair that if not now then later, Wow, Owls! would receive acknowledgment." - PUNKNEWS.ORG
"This combustible Richmond, Va. indie/hardcore mob packs a peripatetic density to the nearly half-hour 'Pick Your Patterns.' Compressed into an airless, lo-fi production, these nine songs are volatile, unceasing and given to jerky turns with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer between the eyes." - INDIANA JOURNAL REVIEW
"Great choons, rammed with energy and the essential lashings of full-bore melody that ensures it doesn't all dissolve into a mess of shit that you forget the instant that the record is over. Fine, fine album." - COLLECTIVE ZINE (UK)
"Don't miss out on your new favorite local band." - EXODUSTER.COM
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.theperpetualmotionmachine.com
Track List:
1. 1989: The Best Four Years Of My Life
2. Your New Favorite Song
3. Five Sexy Alligators, Please
4. Destination: Pizza
5. I'll Be Your Huckleberry
6. Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem
7. Chris, Did You Ruin The Dance Party
8. Saccarine For My Sweetie
9. Nominative Was the Case They Gave Me
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- ROCK: Punk
- ROCK: Hard Rock
- TYPE: SONIC