As Part Chimp announce their latest album Drool, due on June 4, the band's singer, guitarist and self-appointed nagger-in-chief Tim Cedar talks to JR Moores about invertebrates and Ringo Starr.
Releasing two albums in one year (so far, at least…) is a good strike rate for any band. But when a group hits such a rich vein of form as the London-via-Somerset-and-Watford troupe of Hey Colossus, ...
Of the many platitudes by which Hey Colossus are regularly described by their cultish fanbase, “monolithic” seems to be the most persistent, and with good reason. This is music that is painstakingly, ...
Hey Colossus open In Black and Gold gazing up at the stars, ambient sounds shimmering, blissful vocals floating off into the cosmos. But the New Age reverie buckles, drowned out by the droning riffs, ...
Initially lurching from the UK noise underground in 2003 like a bedraggled audial creature rendered from toxic waste in a VHS horror movie, the musical growth rate of Hey Colossus has been quite a ...
Hey Colossus wouldn’t work in quite the same way if you were all fiddling about with electronics all the time… RL: We make all sorts of music ourselves, but the joy of getting together in a room. The ...
Heavy, noisy UK rock band Hey Colossus have announced a new double album called Dances/Curses, their 13th album and the first on bassist Joe Thompson's new Wrong Speed Records label. “It's 100% time ...
Ideas of Noise’s first set of the evening jammed the free-est of largely atonal jazz with a huge double bass, squawky saxophone and electronic interference, these musical misfits easing the audience ...
Listen to the noisenik six piece’s new album ahead of release and let us know your thoughts Some bands like to challenge themselves by becoming increasingly experimental. But Hey Colossus, a six piece ...
Long-running UK band Hey Colossus recently released the Mark Lanegan collaboration “The Mirror” off their upcoming 13th album Dances / Curses, and we’re now premiering second single “U Cowboy,” along ...
When I arrived at The Loft, even though it was at an early hour to catch the excellent Portsmouth-based support bands, Flybums and Battery Hens, there was barely an ounce of air to breathe in the ...