Human Host

CRITICAL PRAISE FOR HUMAN HOST

" One of the last times I saw Human Host, a rather burly fellow-- not a member of the band-- was so moved by the music, one assumes, that he proceeded to strip down to his sweaty underpants and bore through the slack-jawed crowd like a pale, hairy bull. Eventually his clothes had to be retrieved from the loft's overhead pipes. The band continued to declaim their cryptic vocals and punch at their creaking synthesizers, lost in the music, neither emboldened nor disturbed by the jiggling manflesh. Or, as a coworker once put it, "sometimes you see them and it's
like oh my god and other times you see them and it's like what the fuck?"....Pretty awesome....Exploding Demon is Human Host's attempt to give you everything you might get at one of their random function live shows, the oh my god/what the fuck? factor without the dudes in tighty whiteys."
-Jess Harvell on Human Host's Exploding Demon,
Pitchfork, February 02, 2007

"Human Host can turn a punk bar into a dim recital hall AND it can turn a rock club upside down into a spectacle of contorted punk-rock posturing and perverse aboriginal dances to a soundtrack of...the kinds of sounds your first electric keyboard might have made, except only a couple hundred times louder".
- Michael Byrne/Baltimore City Paper

"This is....(Human Host's) finest recorded production, letting the beat get grungy when it needs to and allowing all the tiny sounds and blips to come thru at all the right moments. After 'Invisible Arteries' one can only wonder where Human Host will go next. It's
corny to say, but completely true; Human Host are one of the few musical acts in North America whose only creative influence is Human Host itself."
- Matthew Kosloff/Skyscraper
on Human Host's 'Invisible Arteries' c.d.

"This science-fiction flavored B-movie soundtrack material summons the shreiks of malfunctioning machinery and echoes the angst of tortured carnival workers crying out into the void....morphing from bizzarre to sad."
- Dan Laidman/Punk Planet
on Human Host's 'Invisible Arteries' c.d.

"-- this is sci-fi horror synth-pop! Singer sounds tortured and blood-curdled (although he is an actual good singer), while strange keyboard processions wind their way underneath and a drum machine progresses at a funereal pace...this is some pretty weird complex synth-punk-something, I feel like I've barely gotten
started with it."
- Larry Dolman/Blastitude webzine

"The ten tracks on this disc form an apocalyptic science-fiction space opera of sorts, complete with futuristic synth doodling, strange sounds from various gadgets, and lots of singing / shouting of lyrics....A couple of songs were recorded live, but sound perfectly at home among the studio-induced madness.
Cryptic, even bizarre ideas about song structure and sound keep things interesting....If you like your perverse electronica weird and obsessed with science-fiction themes, you'll want to check this out."
- RKF/The One True Dead Angel webzine
on Human Host's 'Exploding Demon' c.d.


	CRITICAL PRAISE FOR HUMAN HOST " One of the last times I saw Human Host, a rather burly fellow-- not a member of the band-- was so moved by the music, one assumes, that he proceeded to strip down to his sweaty underpants and bore through the slack-jawed crowd like a pale, hairy bull. Eventually his clothes had to be retrieved from the loft's overhead pipes. The band continued to declaim their cryptic vocals and punch at their creaking synthesizers, lost in the music, neither emboldened nor disturbed by the jiggling manflesh. Or, as a coworker once put it, "sometimes you see them and it's like oh my god and other times you see them and it's like what the fuck?"....Pretty awesome....Exploding Demon is Human Host's attempt to give you everything you might get at one of their random function live shows, the oh my god/what the fuck? factor without the dudes in tighty whiteys." -Jess Harvell on Human Host's Exploding Demon, Pitchfork, February 02, 2007 "Human Host can turn a punk bar into a dim recital hall AND it can turn a rock club upside down into a spectacle of contorted punk-rock posturing and perverse aboriginal dances to a soundtrack of...the kinds of sounds your first electric keyboard might have made, except only a couple hundred times louder". - Michael Byrne/Baltimore City Paper "This is....(Human Host's) finest recorded production, letting the beat get grungy when it needs to and allowing all the tiny sounds and blips to come thru at all the right moments. After 'Invisible Arteries' one can only wonder where Human Host will go next. It's corny to say, but completely true; Human Host are one of the few musical acts in North America whose only creative influence is Human Host itself." - Matthew Kosloff/Skyscraper on Human Host's 'Invisible Arteries' c.d. "This science-fiction flavored B-movie soundtrack material summons the shreiks of malfunctioning machinery and echoes the angst of tortured carnival workers crying out into the void....morphing from bizzarre to sad." - Dan Laidman/Punk Planet on Human Host's 'Invisible Arteries' c.d. "-- this is sci-fi horror synth-pop! Singer sounds tortured and blood-curdled (although he is an actual good singer), while strange keyboard processions wind their way underneath and a drum machine progresses at a funereal pace...this is some pretty weird complex synth-punk-something, I feel like I've barely gotten started with it." - Larry Dolman/Blastitude webzine "The ten tracks on this disc form an apocalyptic science-fiction space opera of sorts, complete with futuristic synth doodling, strange sounds from various gadgets, and lots of singing / shouting of lyrics....A couple of songs were recorded live, but sound perfectly at home among the studio-induced madness. Cryptic, even bizarre ideas about song structure and sound keep things interesting....If you like your perverse electronica weird and obsessed with science-fiction themes, you'll want to check this out." - RKF/The One True Dead Angel webzine on Human Host's 'Exploding Demon' c.d.

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