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One Plus One

by Harry Pussy

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Forming 01:26
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One Plus One 01:44
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Tight Fit 01:03
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Nazi USA 02:23
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Not Bright 00:15
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Our Song 01:42
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Vigilance 08:29
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Bad Faith 02:05
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On The Couch 04:34
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Compilation of early duo era recordings

Lightning Bolt, blindfold test in the Wire

Harry Pussy “Vigilance” From One Plus One (Palilalia) 2012, rec 1992 BG: Harry Pussy! BC: Yeah, the Harry Pussy guitar. It’s so distinctive. [Points to Bill Orcutt solo LP on the floor] This band is huge. BG: They’re the best. BC: We used to have a warehouse, and they came and played there in the late 90s. They were a sick trio. BG: Yeah, they played Fort Thunder. BC: There was a huge spaghetti fight, back when I would have been psyched to be in a spaghetti fight. This is from when they were still a duo. The duo is a very potent format. BC: It’s a natural state. People pair up historically. The idea of bands is weird, how do all these people get on the same page? When you’re watching a four person band, you’re like, who’s in charge? When you’re a two person band, you can both be in charge and get away with it. There’s almost an arrogance to it, at least with us. We can go pretty full on. There’s no restraint necessary. BG: We have our own domains. BC: There’s your territory, here’s mine. BG: At a show, you’ve got all the people looking at you… BC: And you’ve got all the girls standing next to you. BG: You can be the performer and I feel like I can just screw around in my own way. BC: We’re a little like Laurel and Hardy. People think of Harry Pussy as this wild, chaotic band, but this is almost sad, melancholic. Do you use any emotional cues? Do you ever say we’re going to do a happy song today? BC: I feel like once a year before practice we suggest something. It never dawns on us, and every once in a while it works as an exercise. We’ll suggest a mood and it works as inspiration. For a minute. BG: Often we’ve had the experience of talking for two hours about our aspirations for what the next record or next song is going to sound like. Then we start playing and it all goes out the window. You can’t control Lightning Bolt. We have to discover what’s working when we’re doing it. We can’t go home and figure that out. We have to be playing together. If you can’t control Lightning Bolt, it means you live up to your own name. BC: Our brains are not in charge of the situation. BG: The Harry Pussy stuff, to me it’s not sad. It’s expansive. It’s like John Coltrane, when you get so expansive and loose and lucid when you’re playing that it feels free and liberating. I get that feeling from Harry Pussy. I’m not sure if that’s what they’re going for. BC: The biggest difference with this one is the playing of Adris [Hoyos]. It’s chilled out. Even some of the later Harry Pussy stuff, if you take the guitar out, some of those notes are sad. It’s super sharp and angular and scattered and shattered, but then there’ll be these sad notes in there… [Adris] was an idol. A wild person, musically at least. BG: It’s magic. The appearance of her playing, her hair and her gestures. BC: A real tornado. It feels like you could put her in a room full of coloured pencils and achieve a similar effect. She just applies herself in a ferocious way to the tools.

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released May 7, 2020

Drums – Adris Hoyos
Guitar – Bill Orcutt

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