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So Many Drums! All-Drum Band Feature Melvins, Big Business, Modest Mouse Drummers

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Hew Time

What happens when Dale Crover (Melvins, Shrinebuilder, briefly Nirvana), Coady Willis (Big Business), and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse) team up to form a new band?

Hew Time, an all-drum outfit that’s just released a song called “Nine Pan Alley” that you can listen to below.

An all-drum outfit runs the risk of being completely boring, or, worse, a total wankfest. But this Hew Time song is anything but: one of these three guys is tapping on a set of cowbells or marimbas or something (please pardon my ignorance, I’m not a drummer) to produce a discernible melody that carries the tune throughout. The rhythms and other percussive effects are pretty cool to listen to also. I don’t know if I could jam an entire album of this, but at least as a one-off this song is a fun listening exercise.

Hew Time’s self-titled album comes out on March 25 via Joyful Noise Recordings. Order here.

[via Lambgoat]

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