ACTH RECORDINGS LAUCHES APRIL 2007



Yes it's true we weren't lying. Holy Hail "Born Of A Star" / "I Owe" on beautiful limited edition 12"s will be ACTH Recordings' first release, slated for April 2nd 2007. If you don't HH them yet then come and see them at Barfly on 9th March, and go to their myspace page.

Remixes are coming from DJ Gorky (Bonde do Role), Duke Dumont, ACTH, Shir Khan and Shadow Dancer.

The record will be distributed by the good folks at Vital, and available in the best specialist shops, you know the ones... you'll also be able to get it at iTunes and so forth.


about Holy Hail..

Cat's a rapper from the dirrrty south who's sister sings in a "praise and worship" band, Kevin's got a one in a millon cat's eye and has never been on the internet, Michally's a preacher's daughter and Matt's a Puerto Rican Jew.

Influenced by The Fall, New Order, Fleetwood Mac, The Gossip, The Band, Nas, Leadbelly, June and Johnny, spirituals, southern soul, westward expansion, easterly winds, northern lights and gypsies.

Holy Hail have supported The Rapture in the UK and played Trash, Liars Club and Queens of Noize. In the US, as well as numerous sold out NYC shows, they recently played at Modular's CMJ Party alongside Van She.



what they say about them...

"Gospel-hop-electro-country...punctuated with the odd piercing scream..." - trash club

"Sounds like Glass Candy getting down and dirty with a fractured bass heavy breakneck paced hillbilly disco thang. Fuck angular guitar, let's square dance with Beth & Brace & Hannah, throw some neon 80s disco shake-it-beat-it-hop-it L'Trimm shapes for added excitement. So many ace noises it's like being 8 again." - 20jazzfunkgreats

"Make room for these guys between Love Is All and Long Blondes - swooning, lovesick hooks that are nonetheless aloof enough... There's an unexpected bridge with hypnotic guitar pulses, but the bigger surprise is the song's gentle country-western lilt..." - pitchfork

"Like the dirty south of The Gossip mixed with some B-52s madness, or maybe even something like the Scissor Sisters mixed with Rilo Kiley. Like if Rilo Kiley wasn't dripping in Omaha infused country and the Scissor Sisters weren't totally overproduced Top Of The Pops nonsense. New wave vs. house music for the thinkers." - bigstereo

"Holy Hail are in sum far more than their four charmingly lo-fi parts. Wielding new-wave keys, post-punk bass lines, and occasional hip-hop beats, the quartet masterfully constructs moody backing tracks at once languorous yet spirited, innocent yet sinister under girl/boy vocals." - flavorpill


This is Holy Hail:



Send demos to 41b Ferntower Road, London, N5 2JE

In 2007 we definitely might do loads more DJing, a photo book, a film, a spacecraft and a monkey band.

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