Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard
- Hella
- Band Name: Hella
- Record Label: Suicide Squeeze
- Release Date: Mar 22, 2005
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Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard may not be exactly groundbreaking or revolutionary, but it's the kind of idiosyncratic release that reminds experimentalism to laugh when something's funny.
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80Combined, you have the best blotter soundtrack ever. [Jun 2005, p.78]
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80At nearly two hours long, Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard is anything but a precise masterstroke. It is, however, a flawed, majestic account of what can happen when a band splits down the middle to compose on their own terms, with no artistic differences and no coalescing of ideals.
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78Naturally, the double-album's peaks occur when both members' ideas intersect.... With these moments, Hella back up their ambition with impressive amounts of ingenuity and elbow grease, creating a White Album for disgruntled Gen Xers still finding solace in shoeboxes full of NES cartridges.
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Both haphazardly ramshackle and calculatedly sublime. [#9]
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60Second disc Chirpin' Hard is the crowd-pleasing Speakerboxxx to Hill's less-accessible Church Gone Wild.
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Chirpin Hard makes you feel like you're getting chased by a swarm of giant mosquitoes in a scrolling Mega Man hellscape circa 1992, while Church Gone Wild is a nerve-shattering whirlwind of atonal chaos. [May 2005, p.168]
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Aside from Church Gone Wild's best moments, there's not much material here that can compare with the intelligence and distinctiveness of the duo's best work.
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58To divide Hella's mind is to hack their talent in half. [May 2005, p.105]
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It's the sound of two very talented musicians getting their proverbial creative ya-ya's out, temporarily sullying their good name to lay ground for something potentially even more exciting.
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55Hill's disc captures everything that's easy to hate about Hella.... Seim's album, on the other hand, is easily the most fully-realized work to bear the Hella name.
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25The Hella boys have immeasurable talent, as proven by their past (and better) releases; unfortunately, Church Gone Wild/Chirpin Hard has nothing but complete disregard and contempt for talent.
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RandolphR.10A true testament of the endless sea of talent that is Spencer Seim and Zach Hill.
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CatfishRivers10
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BrandonS.9Holy shucks! Not their greatest. Hey just got Zach hill and the holy smokes cd/book thing, buy that! Buy this too AAAA!!