catalogue

HEFNER

DEAD MEDIA (WHERE ITS AT IS WHERE YOU)

HEFNER - DEAD MEDIA 154012
format:
1 LP
release:
26.08.2022
label:
WHERE ITS AT IS WHERE YOU
item ID:
154012
barcode:
5060853700897
In their relatively brief lifetime, between 1996 and 2002, Hefner enjoyed an incredibly productive four-album, multi-EP career.

Their beautiful, concise, intelligent songs earned a fiercely loyal, cult audience and the long-term support of legendary DJ John Peel, for whom they recorded innumerable sessions.

Originally released in 2001, their final album, Dead Media, found Hefner reaching out and taking risks.

Keen to break free of their indie-folk roots, they cocooned themselves in a home studio with broken analogue synthesizers, antique drum machines and battery-powered amplifiers.

The band's naivety and guile produced some curiously engaging music, with frontman Darren Hayman's precise, economic, poetic dissections of quotidian romance draped over awkward, fuzzy beats: something like Cat Stevens covering Warm Leatherette.

Dead Media caused confusion at the time and ultimately lead to the band's break up. However, the songs like 'Junk', 'The Night's Are Long' and 'When The Angels Play Their Drum Machines' are among Hayman's most adult and affecting essays and stand out among the finest of Hefner's achievements.

Classic black vinyl!
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. DEAD MEDIA
  • 1.2. TROUBLE KID
  • 1.3. JUNK
  • 1.4. WHEN THE ANGELS PLAY THEIR DRUM MACHICHE
  • 1.5. UNION CHAPEL DAY
  • 1.6. CHINA CRISIS
  • 1.7. ALAN BEAN
  • 1.8. PEPPERMINT TASTE
  • 1.9. THE MANGLE
  • 1.10. THE KING OF SUMMER
  • 1.11. THE NIGHTS ARE LONG
  • 1.12. TREACLE
  • 1.13. HALF A LIFE
  • 1.14. WAKING UP TO YOU
  • 1.15. HOME