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K-Holes: A Grimy Smear Of Rock 'n' Roll

by Andrew Flanagan

'Child' by K-Holes

4 min 6 sec
 
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K-Holes.

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K-Holes.

K-Holes.

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Song: "Child"

Artist: K-Holes

Album: Dismania

Genre: Rock

K-Holes' frayed, exhausted, grimy smear of rock 'n' roll is swaddled in the uneven patchwork of New York City's '80s no-wave scene. The band wields its own unique sort of holler — an earth-colored concrete mold of sax and group mantras and waves of ricocheting build. Within "Child," the opener from K-Holes' second full-length album Dismania, the group's sonic theory is made plain: malignant patience and a straightforward attack, with all five tongues in cheek and aching jaws set firm.

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  • Album: Dismania
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  • Label: Hardly Art
  • Released: 2012
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