Raging Hot
| Raging Hot | ||||
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| 📅 Released | 11 November 2016 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 34:49 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Sniffling Indie Kids | |||
| 🤑 Producer | Jeremy Cimino | |||
| NGHTCRWLRS chronology | ||||
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Raging Hot is the second studio album from the American rock band NGHTCRWLRS.
Content[edit]
The eight-track album was released on compact disc and digitally with Sniffling Indie Kids, on 11 November 2016. It was recorded and engineered by Max Rauch, at their rehearsal space in Clifton, New Jersey, and mixed and mastered by Jeremy Cimino.[1] Raging Hot is described as a mix of abrasive and intense rock anthems and jazzy and mellow tunes, and a Pirate! press release calls the album "90s indie rock from an alternate universe[,] funky 80s glam combine[d] with all manner of psychedelia and noise."[2][3] In an interview The Jersey Journal, DeFranco details the songwriting, saying "it's all guitar-driven music, but we went through a bit of a Talking Heads phase as we were writing it so that kind of comes through."[4] The band describes Raging Hot as "four gentlemen from New Jersey who are deeply in love with music but completely frustrated by the mundane realities of modern life and use those emotions to create something fun."[5] It draws comparison to the music of Sunny Day Real Estate, Title Fight, Fugazi, and Sonic Youth.[3]
The lead single, "Are Two Dee Too," was released on 21 October 2016, which Goldberg explains as "finding your place in the world and contribute to making it better for everyone despite all of the terrible, horrifying things that happen all over, every day."[6] The second single, "Coffee and Weed," was released on 3 November 201. The third single, which focuses on modern capitalism, "Fear and Greed," was released 10 November 2016.[7]
NGHTCRWLRS celebrated the release of Raging Hot with two shows, one at Bloomfield, New Jersey's underground venue Cat Circus on 11 November 2016, and the other at Sunnyvale in Brooklyn, New York City, on 12 November 2016.[4]
Reception[edit]
Speak Into My Good Eye editor Mike Mehalick calls Raging Hot "ebbs of hard-charging riffage and flows of more angular instrumentation," and New Noise says the album is "bristling with incendiary energy and urgency."[5][1]
Motif calls "Are Two Dee Too" a "mellow song[,] but the chorus is hard-hitting and emotional [with] DeFranco's and Goldbrg's guitars unleash electrifying fury that's contagious" according to Motif.[2] Impose says the song "takes you back to some classic 90's rock with its early guitar riff, building up momentum as the instrumentals layer in," adding that "it's a bit of a melancholic song, laced with hope despite its heavy subject."[6] Elmore describes the song "Fear and Greed as "strained vocals press into melodic guitar and a Strokes-leaning bassline [and] suddenly, halfway through, the track breaks down into a distorted chaos, wailing guitars reflecting the band's political message."[7]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Are Two Dee Too" | 4:10 |
| 2. | "Coffee and Weed" | 1:05 |
| 3. | "Disco Diva" | 3:28 |
| 4. | "Losers" | 2:31 |
| 5. | "Fear and Greed" | 5:21 |
| 6. | "Quart Inch Cable" | 1:10 |
| 7. | "Rot" | 4:07 |
| 8. | "Lot Lizard" | 4:35 |
| 9. | "Weed and Coffee" | 2:52 |
| 10. | "Waiting..." | 5:30 |
| Total length: | 34:49 | |
Personnel[edit]
- Frank DeFranco – vocals and guitar
- Brian Goglia – vocals and guitar
- Eric Goldberg – vocals and bass
- Max Rauch – vocals and drums
References[edit]
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New Noise Staff 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Duguay 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pirate! Staff 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Testa 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mehalick 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Schneider 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Elmore Staff 2016.
- Bibliography
- Duguay, Robert (23 November 2016), "Album of the Week: NGHTCRWLRS' Raging Hot", Motif, retrieved 3 March 2019
- Elmore Staff (9 November 2016), "New Jersey Indie-Rockers, NGHTCRWLRS, Debut an Incendiary Jam", Elmore, retrieved 28 February 2019
- Mehalick, Mike (17 November 2016), "SIMGE Stream: NGHTCRWLRS – Raging Hot", Speak Into My Good Eye, retrieved 28 February 2019
- New Noise Staff (2 November 2016), "Song Premiere: NGHTCRWLRS – "Coffee And Weed"", New Noise, retrieved 28 February 2019
- Pirate! Staff (2016), "NGHTCRWLRS - Raging Hot", Pirate!, retrieved 4 March 2019
- Schneider, Meredith (2016), "NGHTCRWLRS, "Are Two Dee Too"", Impose, retrieved 28 February 2019
- Testa, Jim (8 November 2016), "With no vowels but lots of fun, NGHTCRWLRS release new album", The Jersey Journal, retrieved 28 February 2019
