We Are Hex.....never mind what I said before.

So this was at Burlington, a medium-small venue. I had once believed We Are Hex was no more and posted about that back in 2011. In a span of like two months I saw them three times that summer, and then they broke up. These are events that defined that year. The last was with my dear friends Killer Moon at a DIY venue. And then that was that. WAH were riding this power wave of momentum and I was happy to discover them when I did. It felt like I caught them in front of the wave and not behind it. Alright, I was kinda behind it if you count back to their origin of 2007. They have music still unrecorded that once you're a fan you are also salivating for those recordings. It's interesting how they came back to being where they are now, 2013 racing  to gain on the 2011 wave of momentum. And touring, this time to release the EP Lewd Nudie Animals. If there was one new song I could identify that I wanted to hear it was that one. They were also touring with new material.  There's a whole story behind how they came back. Read the interviews on Warmfest.org.  Jilly tells ya'. You read that before or after a show.   Hmm, meanwhile I still listen to their music all the time. Hail The Goer, Gloom Bloom, they are like vineyards that you know will be with you a while. I will never tire of visiting these spaces in my head. Nothing feels formulaic. Th

ere's still so much they have not recorded.  In part that's why you go see them as many times as possible. Your first time, you're barely broken into the cult following. So loaded was that Friday 6 September, my forth time and now a converted believer. I bring in my sister and her husband Greg.
  You don't see a performance so much as a possession. I mean Jilly Weiss goes mental on stage. There is toughness to Jilly for if a possession, it is one she participates in and not a victim of. Jilly appears in full control of the demons that fear her. Jilly is a live wire on the stage with movements that are instinctual and appear unpredictable. After every show Jilly is always so nice and approachable. If its your first time, there's no order to her moves. Its all chaos and instinct. Its a little like seeing Ian Curtis dance for the first time. In the beginning of the Burlington show she wears a hoodie with a boxer's authority.  She howls as if tough neighborhoods don't scare her. They sound urban, streetwise and unpolished.  If you have a muscle car, this is what you want to play from it. If you are let's say jogging. It will pull out of you that second wind. Its the kind of energy this band has, explosive and sustained and focused. Its like they let the bass loose and it forces everyone to catch up and pump the blood faster. You feel an agility along with the impatience. Whenever I can hear the bass sort of run things, I listen. Also, from the beginning there was a darkness to them, a built in supernatural radar.  There is something about urban decay that they do not show fear for. Its in their landscape, part of what they can describe, but fear does not seem to be a real thing from them. We are not speaking of a juvenile type of defiance. There's an automatic maturity to their specific awareness of the dark. Oh shit I said it too loud. Here are the goths as a part of their fan base, and their ok with it going psychedelic, as in.....Birthplace of the Mystics.    In this interview with Warmfest.org Jilly goes on to say their sound is growing darker.  That kind of talk only encourages those that already wash their clothes in Woolite Dark, in cold water.  . The recorded music and the pictures both suspend something thin and incomplete until you see them live.   The music they produce demand a kind of energy that I'm immediately reminded of old 70's, muscle cars. The 70's, I was barely aware of them, woven into the memory of early childhood. So I'm reminded of the earliest fleeting memories of rock and roll. Their sound land locked, too feral to be of urban origin. I wonder how they are appreciated in their native Indianapolis, Indiana. Even as I was barely made aware of them in 2011, part of it was being in this cult following of theirs. From the first show I got it, I was hooked and cannot imagine my music collection without it.
Zig.