Release Biography

Halloween Two-Thousand and Twenty-One. Furious Hooves’ 10th year and our 11th release in our annual Furhoof Halloween Split Series. Boo! (Woo!)

This year we find ourselves taking a couple trips, each led respectively by Jeff Haley and Kevin Knight. First, Jeff Haley takes us to visit the “Three Sisters” in a seemingly upbeat and jangly track, yet there’s something… eerie happening underneath. It may have you questioning which sisters have we come to visit? Perhaps the smoldering volcanic peaks of the Pacific Northwest… or maybe the three hovering on broomsticks over a boiling brew in Salem, Massachusetts.

Next, Kevin Knight’s “Decompose” takes us on a dark journey through a post-apocalyptic forest thick with spore clouds, where the trees have been replaced by the fruiting bodies of a gigantic sentient mycelium thriving underground, aka “the bigger brain.” Organic industrial rhythms keep the towering fungi growing higher, while dripping lo-fi synths narrate the endless blooms of mushrooms bubbling up from the ground.

Credits

Design & Layout by Ryan McCardle.
Mushroom Skull Illustration by Kevin Knight.

Tracklisting

1. Jeff Haley - Three Sisters – 04:58

Written, performed and recorded by Jeff Haley in Portland, OR.
Ⓟ©2021 Jeff Haley, Furious Hooves.
Links: Bandcamp

2. Kevin Knight - Decompose – 03:40

Written in the woods, performed and recorded by Kevin Knight at home in Boyce, VA.
Thanks to Paul Stamets for helping to keep me in awe of mushrooms.
Ⓟ©2021 Kevin Knight, Furious Hooves.
Links: Bandcamp

Total Run Time: 08:38

Press & Accolades

“Haley’s song, the ambiguously titled ‘Three Sisters,’ is a jangly if slightly sedate indie pop song on the surface, but there’s something uncanny about the whole thing. Something shifting just out of view, as though there is more to the scene than you can know.”

“Knight’s ‘Decompose’ is darker still, an ominous late-night descent into streets abandoned to spoil and decay…”

– Various Small Flames, review of Furhoof Halloween Split Series: 2011​-​2021.

Audio/Video

Coming soon…