Hella – Hold Your Horse

You can find higher mathematics in this rock music. It takes some practice to follow the winding integral paths of the Californian band Hella (we don’t even want to talk about understanding it here). Their debut album »Hold Your Horse Is« (the semantics of the title alone make no sense) is perhaps something like the holy grail of math rock. The precision and tightness of this music cannot be explained with normal common sense, which is why I will leave it at this point. Spencer Seim (guitar) and Zach Hill (drums) are behind it. The latter was later responsible for beats for Death Grips (aha!) and drummed in El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. We’ll come to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in a moment.