The Hysterical Injury formed in february 2007.
The Hysterical Injury are a dynamic duo of bass, voice and drums.
'Adam West' by The Hysterical Injury is currently in Steve Lamacq's top 60 records by bands to get excited about!
We were Bethan Elfyn's 'This weeks favourite' on Tom Robinson's BBC6 Music Introducing.
and have been bigged up by Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio1 Introducing, Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales, Gary Smith and Richard Pitt BBC Radio Bristol Introducing, Small Town America -Public Service Broadcast, icast.com Best of Myspace show amongst others....
'24 Hour Glass' video made by Jambon Films
Live at PURR
The video below is called 'Camera Drag'. We made a video by tying a video camera to the bottom of a van and dragging it around a city. We initially made this to go as a backdrop to our live shows, which we will still do where a projector is near. Below is the version meant as an art projection. The music is created from one of our songs 'Silhouette Icon' looped, cut up, duplicated, overdubbed to support the visual in its nausiating outpour. Although the experience and politics differ from Christian Marclay's 'Guitar Drag' (media projection 2000) this piece was visually inspired by Marclay's piece (check it out).
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Some kind words:
"a great rhythmically thrashing pop racket!" - Steve Lamacq (BBC Radio1)
"My favourite band on myspace this week! Catch their primal howl!" - Bethan Elfyn (BBC RADIO 1 Introducing)
"I Love this band!" - Gary Smith (BBC Bristol Introducing) .
" Annie and Lee have it seems taken such slight distractions in their stride and battened up the hatches to craft a skin peeling vibrant alchemy of cacophony and detuned angulated oblivion. Obviously informed by the Sonic Youth school of aural disfigurement though like fellow prickly pop travellers the Joy Formidable etched with a mindset displaying the corrosive elements of both the Cranes and Bleach. Still it’s a razor sharp aural assault whatever the preferred reference markers might be, the incessant back beats pummelling away at your head space turning the grey matter to a jelly like substance, the fraying and fractured angular fuzz drills ad-hoc and disruptive needling away with a sublime out of focus disquiet beneath it all the would be a pristine bubblegum pop interior is scarred, maimed and pulled to pieces thread by thread by the fraught surface austerity." - Mark Barton (LOOSINGTODAY.COM)
"The Hysterical Injury are nothing short of superb" - Opposition T
"It's intelligent, and not just lyrically; the anger at the commercial Kate Moss' concept of beauty taken from a less obvious angle, pondering on why we fail to dissmiss the unobtainable and accept ourselves. Also in the imaginative song structure, no dominating guitar but with drums leading the way for the continuous undercurrent provided by the near metronomic descending bass line that pulls the song into deeper focus and builds, along with the vocals transitioning between ethereal and riot, smoothly to give the song a post 1am feel of a night destined to end in post rock, just not for a while yet. As I said, smart band." - Chris Glynn Drunken Werewolf Magazine
"Bath based Hysterical Injury was on first, and was brilliant. Really fresh sounding, a hint of PJ Harvey, quite stripped down (the band has three members, guitar, bass and drums) but with influences from a range of genres, hints of electronica and bass driven sounds, to create an overall effect that lifted it from your average grunge rock affair." - Sian Norris, Rockfeedback.com
"...Hysterical Injury showcasing a surreal post-rock sound...Sounds good even without listening, but they really knew how to make a noise. The vocalist, yelling and dancing like it was 1979, the guitarist getting sounds out of his instrument that were utterly unnatural and a fantastic drummer, who was so fast, yet hard and amazingly still in time. They kicked up a superb storm as they tinkered away with their effects." by Cloudboy at Rottenmeats blogspot