We Are Hex 2007-2011

I needed an excuse to upload these, and the break up of the band is as good...or bad as it gets.

I got a facebook message saying that We Are Hex broke up and that made a lot of people sad including myself. One might roll the eyes and say "Zig there are real problems and then then there are pretend problems..... there's a recession and the unemployment rate is at over 9%. " And China may be wearing the next shoe to drop. Perhaps, but I just became aware of them this May. Somehow there is comfort to draw from the music you encounter during these dark times. Their existence more delicate still. They are of the same world and so are subject to it's whim. All three times that I saw WAH were within a span of four months, in quick succession. The sadness comes because when you like something you feel like you have liked it for ever. I've had the time now to further both CDs to find their place in the mind. The music I hear always carries with it the time-stamp of what was happening around it. The best have that long shelf-life, and I trust WAH to have it. Music is not created in a vacuum. It responds and reflects the world around it. So We Are Hex broke up and that is a sad, sad thing. That's a lot of gigs between them gigs. The last two times they did mostly new songs that were not recorded yet and apparently will remain so. I got pictures and video for all three times. And youtube has a lot of documented performances. They sounded abrasive and weird, but with a New Model Army-working-class appearance. Eerie and familiar. I love how Jilly danced. At first her movements seemed so chaotic at first, still are but now I know her movements. The energy of the music allows for no rest between sprints from gig to gig. This is not saying I know why they broke up. I do not. But they played a lot. They played everywhere, but with still a lot of nation to cover. The furthest west they went I think was SXSW.