?Describing their style as 'new music for old souls,' Hoots and Hellmouth is a Philadelphia-based roots music act whose music brings together the passion of alt-country and the rustic tone of acoustic folk, merging them with loping jam band grooves. Sean Hoots and Andrew Gray (aka Hellmouth) were both veterans of the Pennsylvania alternative rock scene when they began making music together in 2005 -- Gray released an album as a member of Midiron Blast Shaft and Hoots spent five years with the group Pilot ...   [ read more ]

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The debut from this Philly-based group (really a duo plus friends) definitely falls in the roots rock category, and it does have its moments, starting off well enough with "Want on Nothing" and its gospel inflections. A few other pieces stand out, "Forks and Knives" and the folkie, singalong "This Hands Is a Mighty Hand." For the most part, however, what comes across is something quite workmanlike. They try hard and work up a head of steam and emotion, but somehow much of this disc never quite con...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38

The debut from this Philly-based group (really a duo plus friends) definitely falls in the roots rock category, and it does have its moments, starting off well enough with "Want on Nothing" and its gospel inflections. A few other pieces stand out, "Forks and Knives" and the folkie, singalong "This Hands Is a Mighty Hand." For the most part, however, what comes across is something quite workmanlike. They try hard and work up a head of steam and emotion, but somehow much of this disc never quite con...   [ read more ]

CD $39.88