Hair Police

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Over the years, I cumulated pile of Hair Police stuff, that I always thought was just tiny fraction within massive discography, but now recently when I was going through my Hair Police LP's and then checking discogs, how many I may be missing. I was surprised that actually not that many of albums are missing! I was under impression discography would have been vastly bigger.

Listened bunch of things. Constantly Terrified, Prescribed Burning, Totaled And Standed... liking all these things. I have handful more and kind of regret that when I used to distribute titles, I didn't just take them all into my own collection. That sometimes becomes impossible.
Glad to have this Stay In Bodies - Harbinger 12", since it seems to be one of the more rare ones, while many of the ones I am missing, are large print run cheap vinyl. Only obstacle these days is that the shipping is often far more higher than value of "bulk vinyl".

I recall when I somehow always associated Hair Police to be "band music". Which it is, in a way. You can hear drums, you can hear guitar, vocals, etc.. and yes. Some of it makes me think what if Hijokaidan did not emerge from free-improv background, but more scummy punk type of things?

To illustrate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTe1WNIgpP4

This is not my favorite Hair Police style. I prefer the ones with even more darker, suffocating sound, often slower tempe, often eerie atmosphere, curiously - if you would forget what you are just listening and think some 80's euro ritual-industrial tape. Slow, rusty, down pitched, full of impurities and everything else than "contemporary industrial" appears to be. One could also sometimes think of Matthew Bowers works. Some Total recordings. Like this Constantly Terrified LP.. You can listen free at the bandcamp. On vinyl it feels still a notch more darker, rusty and dusty. Here you got the sort of high fidelity crisp to it, yet the sounds are eerie and dark. Like The Haunting. Second track, with the strings. Almost like Herman Kopp type of wibes mixed with torturous screams and slow noisescapes...  I know at least over here, many did flat out reject a lot of USA noise with "hipster tag", but I guess now is really good moment to jump into buying Hair Police when you can grab many of bigger print-run LP's for almost price of tape...!

https://hairpolice.bandcamp.com/album/constantly-terrified

Suggestions, recommendations, good memories of gigs - as band appeared to be very much a "touring scene" band?

[impulse manslaughter]

Haven't listened to them in a while but the the slowmotion bass-rumblings on the Drawn Dead CD and the Mortuary Servants 7" were my favorites.

[Strangecross]

what really got me into them was a live video from a show at The Empty Bottle, coming from more punk/post punk background this was really intense stuff... but sort of wore off.

First noise show I ever went to was Hair Police, Prurient, Kites. I was suprised that one of the member making noise, had no energy, just sort of staked out sitting down perched up on an amped watching over everyone, looking miserable....but it was a good energy i had never seen before, it was the idea of 'gnarly times.'

There was a ton of hype for Obedience Cuts, which was great, but maybe a little over-hyped to me, and then by Constantly Terrified really did it in for me losing interest.

I had a resurgence in interest a couple years ago and picked up the 'Blind Kingdom' LP and it did not disappoint, slower, doomy, if i remember correctly.

I think the ultimate Hair Police release is the Mortuary Servants 7"

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

It's been a LONG time since listening to Hair Police, but I remember liking Drawn Dead. It was their furthest from the "band" style sound. That one carried an atmosphere of dread and horror. Very stripped down to maybe just guitar and electronics it sounds like, no vocals.

I've always been a big Burning Star Core fan and liked Trevor's percussion contributions when that project went for the band style sound like on Operator Dead...

[Soloman Tump]

Just listened to Drawn Dead on bandcamp and it is indeed very impressive.  Never heard this project before.

[totalblack]

Obedience Cuts is great, having spent quite a few years away from it I picked up a copy for nearly nothing recently. Several copies for sale for under 7 euro, certainly worth having in your collection at that price. I remember Prescribed Burning being quite good as well, but need to revisit most of the groups material.

Really fond memories of the band as a live unit, in some ways more extreme and fun, more in common with a metal band than most other noise \ experimental music. I managed to see them several times and it was always extremely entertaining. I recall a security guard catching a boot to the face while someone was crowd-surfing during their set at one of the No Fun fests at the Knitting Factory. On the third day of the fest it pushed an already extremely unhappy staff over the edge into a minor war with the festival audience.

[ConcreteMascara]

Really fond memories of the band as a live unit, in some ways more extreme and fun, more in common with a metal band than most other noise \ experimental music. I managed to see them several times and it was always extremely entertaining. I recall a security guard catching a boot to the face while someone was crowd-surfing during their set at one of the No Fun fests at the Knitting Factory. On the third day of the fest it pushed an already extremely unhappy staff over the edge into a minor war with the festival audience.

This 2008 No Fun Fest set is seared into my brain, well as much as you can sear something into a brain swimming in bourbon. Admittedly I don't remember the sound of their set but the band and crowd melted together into a surging, screaming, furniture destroying, bottle throwing, eruption of pure power. It was something amazing and imprinted strongly on me. And yes, I'm quite sure this set was the tipping point that turned the rest of the festival into a crowd vs staff for the next day and a half. I myself was escorted out more than once only to argue you my way back in side.

[dust]

first "noise" band i ever got into, found a used copy of blow out your blood in 2005, had been playing in punk/hardcore bands up to that point and it really opened my eyes to the possibilities