Northwoods Knives, by Heavy Hand

Northwoods Knives

by Heavy Hand

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	1.	David Bowie Wants to Steal Your Baby 00:56
	2.	Winner Winner (Beer for Dinner) 02:29
	3.	Milwaukee Cum Dumpster 02:14
	4.	Hot With Dads Tiger Beat Nation 02:58
	5.	Secret of these Wedges 01:33
	6.	I Freed All Four Wizards 02:15
	7.	Mother Fucking Bobcat 02:38
	8.	Urban Coyote 02:20
	9.	Bend At the Waist 02:11

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released July 21, 2014

Heavy Hand is
Anthony Weber
Isa Carini
Chris Roberts

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Everything about this Milwaukee three-piece is a perfectly distilled example of what makes pop-minded noise so giddily intoxicating. Take Northwoods Knives, Heavy Hand’s latest release and its debut LP. Does it stick a shiv in your gut, Royal Tenenbaums-style? It does. Does it bounce and percolate like The Thermals and Superchunk? It does. Does it do all that and more in just over 20 minutes? Of course it does. Like Heavy Hand itself, Northwoods Knives makes its point in no time flat.
- Matt Wild of Milwaukee Record and A.V. Club Milwaukee

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“Part of the appeal of Northwoods Knives is that it sounds familiar—in a good way. Opening track “David Bowie Wants to Steal Your Baby” sets the tone right of the gate. The track is to-the-point, guitar-driven indie rock: catchy, but not annoyingly catchy; noisy, but not unnecessarily noisy. The band wouldn’t have been out of place opening up for the likes of Superchunk and Archers of Loaf at the Cat’s Cradle in the mid-1990s.

“I think we’re trying to pay homage to the music we grew up listening to without ripping it off,” explains Carini, who also plays tuba in The Scarring Party. Weber, who performs with Like Like The The The Death, makes this point a bit more colorfully: “I try to relate what we’re doing to Oedipus. Kill your father and do the sex thing with your mother.””
— Michael Carriere for The Shepherd Express (1/30/14)

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#11 in Milwaukee Record’s THE 25 BEST MILWAUKEE ALBUMS OF 2014.

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Geology Records Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin label with a wandering focus releasing cassettes in small runs.

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discography

Moving Backwards

Sep 2021
Simple Air

May 2021
Layers Volume Two

Nov 2020
Layers Volume One

Nov 2020
Asphodel Meadows

Jun 2020
Tempus of Diminution

Jun 2020
As Nice As A Tree

Feb 2019
Six Lugubrious Airs

Feb 2019
Selected Acoustic Works

Apr 2018
Lost Memories

Apr 2018
Rides Eternal

Apr 2018
Lapse

Apr 2017
The Heart Wants

Apr 2017
Arc of the Sun

Nov 2016
Monocarpic

Nov 2016
A Retreat More Than A Surrender

Aug 2016
Lobelia

May 2016
Split

May 2016
Five Years

Dec 2015
Marshal South

Nov 2015
Backwards

Jun 2015
Ad Astra

Apr 2015
Inhibitions

Aug 2014
Northwoods Knives

Jul 2014
DS4

Jul 2014
Earthworm

Feb 2014
We Buy Gold

May 2014
One

Dec 2013

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