MASTODON - Brent Hinds' FIEND WITHOUT A FACE / WEST END MOTEL Double Album Released Today, Now Available For Streaming
June 6, 2011, 13 years ago
MASTODON guitarist / vocalist Brent Hinds has two side projects, FIEND WITHOUT A FACE and WEST END MOTEL, and will release a two-CD set via Rocket Science today (June 7th). AOL Music is hosting a Brent Hinds Presents listening party and fans are able to check out the release in its entirety here.
The Mastodon singer/guitarist explores a variety of influences across the two albums, from classic country to surf, punk, sleeze and boozy riffing, emerging at the end like a smirking cartoon roadrunner with no more damage than a morning's headache. The albums span decades of recordings from the mid-'90s with Fiend Without A Face to the later West End Motel material, finished earlier this year.
Commented Hinds of the two projects: "Fiend Without A Face is a rockabilly, surf-type of band, and then West End Motel is like an Americana, drunk country Shane McGowan, Tom Waits-y vibe. More of a Vaudeville sound."
To check out a recent interview with hinds on Streetdate.com, go to this location. Click the links below for more information on the projects.
www.Myspace.com/fiendwithoutafaceband
As previously reported, Hinds stars in a commercial for the local Atlanta, GA restaurant Elmyr, which can be viewed below. The clip is a take on pharmaceutical TV ads in which Hinds complains of suffering from OHP (Overwhelming Hunger Pangs); Elmyr's food is prescribed as the cure.
