Uh Huh Her
Uh Huh Her has matured
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It’s always nice when artists know how we, the fans, work. The Deftones are particularly good at this. They write a record, record it, release it, tour it relentlessly, take about half a year off, and then repeat. They don’t lag.
Uh Huh Her goes about showing their savvy in a different way. Their new full-length, Nocturnes, will record store shelves later this year. However, since their last full-length release was their 2008 debut Common Reaction, they felt it necessary to lead us back to their music as if with breadcrumbs.
To that end, they created an EP, Black and Blue.
“As you know, its hard for an indie band to self-release any product,” explains Uh Huh Her’s Camila Grey.” “We had intended on releasing Nocturnes in the spring, but felt that we needed to re-introduce ourselves to the market we had been absent from for so long. We felt that an EP would help serve as a promotional tool for touring to remind people we had come back. We plan on releasing Nocturnes summer 2011.”
It’s nice to know that at least two people in the music industry know what’s what.
Black and Blue, was produced in its entirety by Grey, who admits it wasn’t exactly the end result of a laborious process.
“We're really happy about how Black and Blue turned out. It was extremely emotionally charged, and for the most part was a very stream of consciousness effort,” she says. “We made it in a week and a half.”
Believe it or not, there was a lesson in there...
“It felt good to know that if needed, we are able to make something so quickly and yet still have it sound like it was made over a month as opposed to thrown together, which it very much was.”
Originally more notorious for having an actress—The L Word’s Leisha Hailey—in it rather than for being a killer synth-pop act, Uh Huh Her has, as evidenced by Black and Blue, matured. As Grey says, it’s persuasive and emotional, but it merits mention that it’s also very danceable (which anyone who can see into my apartment can attest to).
Nocturnes, produced by Wendy Melvoin (Prince and The Revolution), promises to be further proof of that maturation.
“Wendy has such a distinct style and is an amazing musician,” says Grey. “I really respect her. I call her the mad scientist because she has a room at Henson [Recording Studios] that is full of every kind of musical toy, or pedal, vintage gear, etc, and she would spread all her toys out on the floor and we would just experiment with sounds.
“It was so much fun, and really shaped the lush, rich soundscape that became Nocturnes.”
Uh Huh Her plays @ National on April 29th at 8 pm
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