Tagged: hooyoosay

hooyoosay is a peculiar music recording project, having a variety of unnamed and constantly changing collaborators.
Hence a wide diversity in styles is arrayed, which makes hooyoosay rather hard to categorize.
Previous releases were the full-length " In dekay ", and the single/EP's " My obsession ", " Don't you lie to me ", and " Come on ".

And again hooyoosay have a couple of new contributors. One of them is a young boy. A very young boy actually. From the start he insisted on having a lead vocal. So some of the veteran bandmembers put aside their drumkit, guitars and harmonica, and plugged in their synths to create a couple of electro-pop infused fun songs, resulting in the EP " Googly Goo ".

The EP offers four tracks, all of them radiating a joyful, cheerful vibe and an intense feelgood mood.
Containing titles like " Googly Goo " and " Tare Too Te Rut Te ", one might expect a mere bit of nonsense going on, but there is no absurdity here at all, on the contrary, there is this continuous expression of fun and happiness.
In " Googly Goo " the young kid utters his excitement about all the wonderful things he gets to see when touching a pc tablet.
And " Tare Too Te Rut Te " is no more than another way of saying "we feel fine"!
Played in sequence, the tracks evoke an evolution from early childhood with the happy Googly Goo kid, along the younger teenage years with the innocent "na na na" chant when " Tare Too Te Rut Te " opens, towards a more mature stage of being a teen when the guitar solo comes in by the end of " Tare Too Te Rut Te ".

Find it on  http://hooyoosay.com and in online stores.

By Baxter Labatos, Spheremusic, May 2013.

hooyoosay is a remarkable band making happy tunes. The only thing that bothers me is that I could not find the country of origin from this awesome project. At first listen, the tracks sound like jingles with electronica meets country kind of style, but then again it doesn’t sound so. It is hard to categorize their music, but they surely make catchy tunes rooted in the beauty of pop music.

My rule of thumb when listening to albums is just to listen. No need to analyze, but just enjoy the music for music’s sake. This seems to be the principle behind the album "Don’t you lie to me". But, like I said, who knows? The title track is catchy with hints of chanson, vintage and vaudeville pop. ”There’s two kinds of people that I just can’t stand, and that’s a lying woman and a sneaking man, so don’t you lie to me.”… The chorus is easy to singalong and the instrumental arrangement is excellent.

Another notable track in this release is the instrumental "Yooplaaa!". Um... again this is hard to categorize, but it is beautiful. I love the mixing of the bass and drums because they really sound full. The overall sound design is slick, clean and glossy. Oh, did I already mention slick? No need to argue. Just grab the album.


Original online publication:
http://spheremusic.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/hooyoosay-dont-you-lie-to-me/