ARTIST: Hurt
TITLE: Vol. 1
LABEL: Capitol
GENRE: Hard Rock
BITRATE: 216kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 56min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-21
RIP DATE: 2006-03-07

Track List

01. Shallow                         3:50
02. Rapture                         5:40
03. Overdose                        6:37
04. Falls Apart                     4:41
05. Forever                         3:34
06. Losing                          5:08
07. Unkind                          4:08
08. Danse Russe                     3:53
09. Dirty                           5:27
10. Cold Inside                     4:21
11. House Carpenter                 9:33

Release Notes:

Hurt is a band born of extremes. Lead singer/violinist/guitarist/arranger J. Loren
Wince grew up in the backwoods of Culpeper, VA. His parents exposed him to ample
doses of gospel and classical music, but rock and roll was banned. Not so for
drummer Evan Johns: the son of famed rock producer/engineer Andy Johns (Led
Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Van Halen), he was raised in Southern California among
rock's elite and began playing drums early on.

The forbidden inevitably begets curiosity and eventually J. Loren not only
discovered rock music but found it the ideal expression for his pent-up emotions.
Evan heard an early demo, thanks to an associate of his dad's, and soon joined him
in Hurt, along with bassist Josh Ansley and guitarist Paul Spatola.

"Rapture," the lead single, examines the twisted logic that religious zeal can
engender, leading to a chilling outcome for the young couple portrayed. A guitar
strums ominously, then is joined by a chugging rhythm section that propels the song
forward to its fatalistic conclusion while Wince's vocals slide up and down an
emotional Richter scale, matter-of-fact delivery yielding to fearsome growl and
ebbing to a hushed near-whisper. Musically, it's a dizzying display of ying and
yang, as is Vol. 1 as a whole. Delicate guitar work and serene symphonic passages
swirl into a fury of raw, explosive rock and guttural vocals and circle round to a
fragile beauty that is then quickly crushed. Vol. 1's lush string arrangements may
call to mind a time when arena bands incorporated classical influences to bombastic
effect - but Hurt, with its irregular time signatures and post-industrial
sensibility, is not out to create Bic-lighter anthems but to plumb the depths of a
single shattered soul.

Vol. 1 was produced by Eric Greedy.