The Hoilies
Presenting The Hoilies

This is the first record by this Melbourne trio, who write tracks using samples from local educational radio station K-12 in the US. The results have a strange, almost haphazard quality, like a reader cutting and pasting a bunch of random school children's voices into a playlist for later. The Hoilies is almost like a jazz punk band, with slightly more textual diversity. The two compositions I hear most often – "Buck Shoe", which sounds like a sped-up Brian Wilson, and "Old Time Quarters", which sounds like a Miles Davis orchestra – have a highly atmospheric quality. Not quite ambient, but definitely moving.

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