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Let Bygones be by – Zach Hill (Hella) and Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos) announce new duo’s debut

Let Bygones be by – Zach Hill (Hella) and Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos) announce new duo’s debut

What can be said about Bygones? Have you heard of Hella? Tera Melos? These bands don’t need words to get their point across. So logically, a project bred from their members Zach Hill (drums, vocals) & Nick Reinhart (guitar, bass, vocals) is equally successful at rendering listeners speechless. Check out “Click On That (Smash The Plastic Death)” HERE.

Come August 4th, Bygones’ debut album by- will most certainly render even the most loquacious and easily-distracted dumbfounded. It’s a sinewy, wired mass of riffs and rhythms tightly wound around a uniquely pop heart. The duo fits more riffs and ideas into one song than most bands fit into a whole album. It’s tireless, and nearly infinite in the sheer quantity of ideas to unravel. Equally captivating is the album cover art (see below) featuring their pal Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors.

Most everyone familiar with Zach Hill knows he’s an equally tireless collaborator. Just take a look at his impressive Wikipedia page. Along with Hella, he also performs with Marnie Stern and in El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Team Sleep (with Chino Moreno of Deftones), Goon Moon, Crime In Choir and a host of others. In a recent news story, Pitchfork quipped of his ridiculously busy schedule, “at this rate, Hill’s probably going to need to clone himself.”

Can we play the game of stepping out of the bounds of what’s expected to the point where we’re no longer sure if we believe in anything anymore? Is there a point? Bygones are a product of our age. Let’s not over-analyze. Let’s not look for cultural pertinence. Let’s not be stymied by tradition, or by the desire to react against it. Let’s not pander. Instead, let’s rejoice in both our common bonds and our eccentricities. Let’s own it. And, let Bygones be by-.

Bygones debut album by- will be released by Sargent House on August 4th on both CD and 12″ Vinyl. Pre-sales begin on July 1st.

01) Cold Reading
02) Click on That (Smash The Plastic Death) MP3
03) Not What It Is But What It’s Not
04) Nu Cringe
05) Fool Evolved
06) Spray You With Your Own Trip
07) Expelled
08) Up the Shakes
09) Ex-People
10) Error

http://www.myspace.com/bygonesmusic