Location Houston, TX

Last Login 04/01/2009

Website http://www.honeyclaws.com

Bio Honey Claws: Bio


It’s a new century and the old moves just don’t add up to dancing anymore. As the greybeards and faux-hippies fade off into irrelevancy, four Texans called Honey Claws have come to the fiesta and they’re bringin’ the future with them. A mostly electronic, mostly funky, 14-piece hip-hop epic, Honey Claws’ self-titled debut album is a pulsing, cursing, spitting, raving, fun-loving, literate, club-killing masterpiece.

Some back-story: Multi-instrumentalists Dr. Zero, Ben Senior, Jon Von Letscher, and Traey Hatch went down in the lab with a pen and a pad (in Austin and Houston, respectively) and came out six months later with a new take on American music. Absent in their debut is any sense of confirmed or confined genre, but at the same time it's a fully realized sound, part mad scientist hip-hop experiment, part soulful psychedelic wall of sound.

Songs like “Giant Town,” “Villains,” and “Ambulance” are electronic music that’s both lovesick with technology and totally organic-feeling. “Shout Out” is the playful, balls-out, party jam that radio’s been waiting for. “E-Sticker” is pure electro FUNK with Jon Von Letscher’s tight old school hip-hop flows blowin’ off doors from Austin to deepest, darkest Peru. “Animalssss” is a glowing pool of bioluminescent trip out. Together they make 49 minutes of gorgeous, innovative newness. Meet Honey Claws. Like all animals, you have claws too. Use them.

Members Jon Von Letscher
Thomas Sahs
Ben Wah
Traey Hatch

Label Tierra Records

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