“Born of a belief that what music is made from and where it is created is as important as the music itself, Hurt Sermons took form from an assemblage of foraged elements – antique scrap metal, discarded agricultural materials, an amplified windmill and ‘bones chimes’ made from sun-bleached animal bones, to name a few – on an isolated rural property in southern Western Australia.
Through every creak, scrape and note, this music carries with it the history of the abandoned materials used in its creation, while simultaneously delivering something wholly new and forward focussed. Don’t get the wrong idea, this isn’t some hokey, one-man jug band. The rattling mix of post-punk, experimental noise rock and apocalyptic southern doom presented here is as heavy and unsettling as it is melodic and compellingly unique.
In eschewing traditional band instruments and practices, while staying committed to DIY sustainable practices, Hurt Sermons’ progenitor J Allan Wrrts delivered all aspects of the project alone. This extended beyond writing, playing, recording and mixing, to the artwork and even designing and constructing the instruments used from discarded objects found on the property.”
Released just over a week ago, this is the latest effort from Australian rock artist Hurt Sermons. A uniquely unconventional achievement in the Noise Rock arena, for all of the above stated reasons, Broken Bough speaks to a marriage of the industrial (in the material sense, not the genre) and the organic, bringing together found materials and birthing sound from them. The result is a haunting blend of influences like The Cure and Type O Negative but with the twist of DIY and ingenuity.
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