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Old Friend

by Hair Puller

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Deluxe vinyl comes in assorted colors and comes with full color inner sleeve lyric sheet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Friend via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Test Pressing
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Comes in plain black or white disco jacket with glued color photocopy of album front cover. Hand numbered. Cascade Record Pressing test press labels on black vinyl.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Friend via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Trash Fed 03:37
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Old Friend 02:01
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2000 Doubts 03:51
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Chores 02:03
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Waste 02:34
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Long Memory 03:52
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Head Down 01:56
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about

"Look: Big, dumb riffs are harder than you think. Palm-muted chugs and sidewinder pull-offs can rate on a scale of Honda Accord (safe, reliable, standard) to El Camino (muscular, mean, wild) depending on the driver who's stomping on the sonic gas pedal. Hair Puller was founded on this premise, and its 101 MPH sludge will pulverize your headbanging skull.

After a demo and split EP with Dead Tropics, the Portland trio is ready to release its debut album, Old Friend. After 30 seconds of rolling drums and sustained power chords, the title track pummels into action with a sludgy riff and a cyclonic rhythm section that owes more to hardcore than metal. The effect is something like early Kylesa or even Code Orange — Hair Puller's dueling vocals contribute to the chaos — but stripped to its rawest primeval essentials. It's the stuff of whiplash, served up in less than two minutes."// NPR, ALL SONGS CONSIDERED

"Combining the claustrophobic noise rock of Unsane with the riffy sludge of middle-period Melvins to create a caustic cocktail." - Fred Pessaro // REVOLVER MAGAZINE

"Searing vocals, riffs that flood the landscape with a wrathful chaos, and lyrics that contain just enough emo-articulation to satisfy moody fans. The onslaught of heat is relentless throughout each song. In fact, the sheer force with which the band plays is so overwhelming that more than a few metal fans might break a neck mid head-bang." - Avril Carrillo // THE DELI MAGAZINE

"Sounds like a tidal wave of toxic sludge preparing to subsume everything in its wake, or the moment of battle when Valkyries begin to descend over the chaos." - Ciara Dolan // THE PORTLAND MERCURY

"Spans the spectrum between chaotic rockers and tense dissonant sludge. If you are a fan of early Kylesa, Pissed Jeans, Circle Take the Square, Unsane, and Buzzov*en, then you might have found your pimply-faced unicorns!" -Tony Shrum // NEW NOISE MAGAZINE
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credits

released November 16, 2018

All songs written by Hair Puller

Steve Seal- Drums/ Backing Vocals
Ledena Mattox- Bass/ Vocals
Eric Leavell- Guitar/ Vocals

Produced by Hair Puller at Husk Recording
Co-Engineered by Robert Comitz at Stop/Start
Recorded and Mixed by Eric Leavell
Mastered by Julian Silva at On Air Mastering
Lacquers cut by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Mastering
Manufactured at Cascade Record Pressing
Cover painting by Gabriel Taylor
Back cover photos by Matthew Koroulis at Victory Lounge in Seattle
Album layout by Jeff Borkgren

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Hair Puller Portland, Oregon

All hair pulling should be consensual hair pulling.

"Old Friend" showcases what Hair Puller does best-- blistering barn burners, chuggy rockers, dueling male/female vox, and the push and pull of dissonant sludge to highlight their distinctive and sinister take on heavy music. ... more

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