Download: Holloys, ‘#25’

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No matter whether you buy into the Holloys’ mythology*, the Los Angeles band’s chief mystic and bottle washer Jim Brown has been recalibrating sonic weights and measures for eight years now. (* “Holloys” are intelligent energy frequencies that propel the band’s music from a place called Lake Land to a place called Everything, i.e. Earth – which to us seems much more sensible than, say, releasing music on cassette tapes.) Holloys’ new album “Suns Lungs” (out today) encases Brown’s mind-baking, body-shaking dance-punk in tight polyrhythms and blasts of guitar and trumpet. Over 36 minutes, “Suns Lungs” possesses almost hypnotic qualities – if trances can induce convulsions, that is. Brown, whose rotating cast of collaborators in the past has included members At the Drive In, the Breeders and the Mars Volta, is now surrounded by Bryan Lee Brown, Derek Wood, Michael Elliott, Alvin DeGuzman and Andrea Newell, and Holloys are in top form on “#25.” Consider the opening verse: “I used to think that these numbers were just shapes made out of lines / I used to think that they were not alive / Till I met 25, yeah it’s in disguise, it’s number 52 / Yeah it talked to me, yeah it showed me and now it’s gonna show you.”

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“#25”

||| Also: Visit the band’s website to get free downloads of 2009’s “Art Wars” and 2010’s “No Where Is Now Here.”