Angel Hair Insect Immortality
- Format
12 Inch
Bugs Eye (Red and Yellow)
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Colorado’s Angel Hair were a chaotic hardcore band active between 1993 and 1995. During this time, they released one full-length, 1995’s Insect Immortality, which constitutes side one of this remixed and mastered reissue from Three One G, and four EPs / split EPs, which comprise the flipside.
Raw, screamed vocals rage in tandem with taut, angular guitars while underpinned by a furiously urgent rhythm section. The fierce delivery weaves together passages of beguiling, darkly dissonant melody with eruptions of frenzied, unbridled aggression, dramatically fluid in its writhing changes of pace and intensity. These qualities are particularly well captured on Origin Of Species, T-Minus Sixty Years, and Bedroom Scene From Communion as flavours of Swing Kids and early Fugazi flare through the discordant havoc. The lyrics mirror this surging chaos being fragmented and often absurdist in composition.
Insect Immortality combines nearly all our previous releases, certainly all the ones worth hearing. Most were recorded by Gravity’s Matt Anderson in San Diego in a variety of DIY spaces and setups, none of which would qualify as a studio per se. They were recorded quickly, mixed immediately, and often available on tour less than 2 months later. It was an incredible time in our lives and those recordings really do capture the energy and momentum of what we were creating. But three decades later, after our ears and minds have evolved along with technology, it became evident at some point that all the music we released could be made to sound much better. Thanks to Matt’s foresight and diligence, obtaining the original masters wasn’t difficult. We handed them over to Pete Lyman, a giant in the mastering world, and our old chum from Boulder, present at the first and last Angel Hair shows and many in between. Pete remixed the tracks from our 12-inch and most of the EP’s from the ground up, and the difference is huge. These songs have never sounded so intense and everyone in the band is very well represented.
—Angel Hair
