STAHV - Electric Youth - Reviewed by Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2022/06/16/stahv-electric-youth/
STAHV has released a full album cover/re-imagining of The Cult’s 1987 Heavy Rocking masterpiece “Electric”. With a hard-edged straight up sound (with no less than Rick Rubin twiddling the studio knobs) The Cult successfully followed up the bullseye they’d hit with the much Goth-ier “Love”.
STAHV’s take on “Electric” is a one-man passion project; everything you hear is just one talented multi-instrumentalist having a damned good time playing classic songs he obviously adores.
Staying very true to the pacing and content of the originals, what we have here is an exercise in genre-bending, think more style and instrumentation swapping. Barnstormers like “Peace Dog” and “Bad Fun” get the Country-tinged Southern Acid-Rock treatment to great effect, “King Contrary Man” gets the Bauhaus/Iggy Pop Krautrock/Post-Punk electronic beeps and bloops. Meanwhile, “Memphis Hip Shake” goes full Sabbath. You hear the songs you already know and love; just not how you remember them. Highlight of this clever reimagination is “Love Removal Machine”. An almost blissful summer-sunshine Tame Impala/Moon Duo trance-along that is just sublime. Not every track hits these heights, but there are no actual dogs. “Born to be Wild” is a bit of an “Individual” take that references STAHV’s earlier and more heavily electronic output. - Metal Digest
Release Date: March 11th, 2022
FFO: The Cult, All Them Witches, Ty Segall
Location: Seattle, WA
The latest release from STAHV , Electric Youth , is a full album cover of Electric by The Cult . According to the revered doom metal site, The Obelisk, "songs range from acid desert folk “Aphrodisiac Jacket” to bedroom indie pop on “Love Removal Machine” to the fuzz ‘n’ crash treatment given to “Electric Ocean” and “Memphis Hip Shake.” Since 2017, Seattle-based experimental artist STAHV is a shape-shifting one-person act that KEXP describes as combining "elements of heavy psych-rock, doom metal, post-rock, noise-rock, and more." Live, STAHV has supported The Well , The Obsessed, Scott Kelly of Neurosis , Yamantaka//
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UPCOMING SHOWS
4.2.22 Substation w/ To End it All (Seattle, WA)
4.23.22 Clock-Out Lounge w/ TUNIC (Seattle, WA)
Personal Statement: Published at The Obelisk with Premiere of "Electric Ocean" and "Memphis Hip Shake"
https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2022/02/17/stahv-electric-youth-announce-premiere/
Check out this track-by-track breakdown in Breathing the Core Magazine! http://www.breathingthecore.com/2022/03/track-by-tracks-stahv-electric-youth.html?m=1
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