HARLEM don't sound like The Replacements, but they sure generate the same ragged thrills. To date the Austin, Texas based three-piece has generated a mountain of attention, laying waste to shoebox sized venues and self-issuing their debut album Free Drugs. Hippies (the band's first meisterwerk for Matador) is filled with Harlem's casual virtuosity and otherworldly songwriting skills, harnessing their energy into 16 blasts of pure pop mania. There's a new dimension of song-writing that is as tightly masterful as it is true to a joyfully frantic primitivism. Recorded with the assistance of Mike McHugh, (Black Lips, Strange Boys), Hippies captures a classic iconoclastic sound that in eras-past was achieved by Dead Moon, The Kinks and The Pixies.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Someday Soon
2. Friendly Ghost
3. Spray Paint
4. Number One
5. Be Your Baby
6. Gay Human Bones
7. Torture Me
8. Cloud Pleaser
9. Faces
10. Tila And I
11. Three Legged Dog
12. Prairie My Heart
13. Scare You
14. Stripper Sunset
15. Pissed
16. Poolside