Release Date:
May 19, 2009
"The album combines social commentary and introspection with loose instrumental jams that sometimes have that Broken Social Scene feeling of a bus running without brakes. The Audio collages between tracks enhance the sense that AOH isn't just a band, it's a mobile sound laboratory." 3/4 stars - Globe & Mail
"It's leaner, more solid and more aggressive, drawing from the attitude and bricolage aesthetic of old-school hip-hop ... a contemporary urban take on everyday battle hymns." - CBC.ca
"Eats Darkness revels in extremes. At 35 minutes, it's the shortest Apostle of Hustle album, and yet it feels like the longest, most satisfying journey of them all. It's at once their most sparse and their most dense effort... a band with an insatiable musical appetite from every corner of the world consciousness" - Exclaim!
Opera Song for Edward Said (Scherezade Mix by Tchang Combat, Studio Masterkut, Montreal)
ˇRafaga! (Perro Callejero Version by dj LeSpam, Miami)
Fast Pony for Victor Jara (Ricky Paul Mix by Dosh, Minneapolis)
Charade (Henry Mancini)
El Encuentro (Featuring Daniel Stone)
Parisian Walls (gband version, Barcelona)
Release Date:
December 11, 2007
Announcing “U King,” from Apostle of Hustle. The of this EP depicts a King gazing impersonally outward. We instantly notice three anomalies. First, his hair has been allowed to ‘Fro out violently from under his crown, indicating a rebellion to what is expected from him. Second, he wields not a sceptre, but a giant bass guitar. Third, he “goes alone.” There are no tarot or playing card signs to tell us what suit he belongs to – only a number one. What to make of it?
The positive traits of the EP include: a storytellers knack for moving from the universal to the personal, themes of seduction and betrayal, the first AOH-penned Spanish song, a love song for Coco Rosie, a rare guitar solo, Cuban comedy from the 70’s, old-skool 808 beats from Miami, a re-make of one of Wayne Newton’s show-stoppers (including Liam from The Stills’s interstellar sax-playing), and an homage to the wisdom of the late Edward Said. There are no negative indications on this EP.
Three remixes followed by two unreleased tracks and one gband konfession. The world is yours. U-King.
Release Date:
February 6, 2007
'National Anthem of Nowhere’ is for everyone who feels that they have no voice or can’t be heard. They hear this title and something stirs inside them. Then they hear this song and they feel that they “know” it. They meet strangers in nowhere places and will never forget those meetings. They wander out into the suburban, in-between zones and there they are welcomed.
Release Date:
August 24, 2004
"Lush, poetic and beautifully disorienting, BSS guitar guru Andrew Whiteman’s long-awaited solo spin is like smoking hash and eating mangoes on a beach in Xanadu, a trip to some sleepwalking spacious state where bossa meets Buckley and Ribot rolls dice with beat poets." (Now Magazine)
The digital download and double vinyl versions include two bonus tracks unavailable on CD.
