Hallelujah the Hills (Boston)
- Ampeater Review – July 8, 2010
Hallelujah the Hills’s lyrics are full of couplets that are clever and funny and touching and use words that you have probably not recently heard in a rock song, like, say, documentarian or cohorts,without sacrificing any of the rhythm that lyrics have to have to carry a rock song. AND they have loud guitars. What more could you ask for?
…of Colonial Drones
Released by Misra Records on September 22, 2009- Prefix – September 22, 2009
…as catchy as each song can be, what grew on me is how they all mesh into a cohesive whole.
- The Boston Phoenix – September 22, 2009
It’s this open-minded and open-ended approach that has made HTH one of Boston’s most prized pop possessions. We’re not likely to hear a local album that trumps the wonders of Colonial Dronesanytime soon.
- The Line Of Best Fit – September 23, 2009
Colonial Drones, as the title aptly suggests, is a work full of fantasy-like explorations, laden with anthemic choruses and lyrics freely open for interpretation.
- The Weekly Dig – September 22, 2009
It doesn't take long to realize this album is something extra special.
- Prefix – September 22, 2009
There's an epic quality to everything they do, and the set at large benefited from the same careful arc that's found on a smaller scale within each song.
Boston's own Hallelujah the Hills wrapped up a five week tour and were tighter than Glenn Beck's throbbing forehead vein.
[The Silver Jews] followed an energetic set from Hallelujah the Hills — loud and non-showy with six dudes on stage including a trumpeter, a cellist, and a thunderous drummer who pounds with such force he’s regularly launched off his stool.
Rarely do entire albums translate successfully as live setlists, but Hallelujah the Hills proved that their debut Collective Psychosis Begone is an exception to the rule Saturday night at the Middle East Upstairs. Breezing through the ebbs and flows of the excellent album like grizzled veterans, Ryan Walsh and his bandmates treated the crowd to a commanding performance.
http://www.hallelujahthehills.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zLKaes54BPM