OHLALA SLOWMO EROTIC "FUCK ALL Y'ALL"
SlowMo Erotic is Kevin Hardy and Matthew Hermstad, boyfriends of 4 years, who eat, sleep, and rehearse from their little house in Los Angeles. While Kevin is busy writing the quirky pop songs on his piano, Matt is perfecting the coinciding beats and grooves. Much like fellow pop/indie duos Mates of State and the Dresden Dolls, SlowMo Erotic balances catchy choruses and edgy lyrics (“Forgive me for what I say for what I say is blunt. Have you ever had one of those days where everyone’s a cunt?") with a musicianship that is unique.
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Kevin was raised in Orange County. As you would expect from any white kid growing up in the infamous OC, he worked at the mall, had a cell phone at a very early age and was prone to dying his hair. After learning to play the piano in high school and accepting that he was in fact a “band geek”, Kevin knew that playing music was what he wanted to
pursue. Kevin enrolled at The Musicians Institute of Hollywood in 2003 where he finished first in the Artist Development Competition for Songwriting, hooked up with
folk singer Barbara Cohen (who would go on to produce SlowMo Erotic’s first studio EP and full length) and ofcourse, where he would meet Matthew.
Matthew was born and raised on a small island in
Washington, Anacortes to be exact. Besides being a self
proclaimed victim of Seattle’s mid-90’s “grunge quake”, he
was your typical smart-ass teenager who liked to smoke,
hang out with his friends, and who opted to take his G.E.D.
his junior year of high school. After a summer of working
as a commercial fisherman (seriously), Matt saved up enough
money to move to Los Angeles in 2002 to study drums, which
he had been playing for over 8 years. He felt right at home
at the Musicians Institute where he was encouraged to stay
up all night practicing and to make as much noise as he
wanted. It was on a cigarette break from one of these all
night practice sessions that Matthew first introduced
himself to Kevin.
After years of playing clubs and festivals up and down
the West coast, Kevin and Matt have chosen their best 12
tracks for inclusion on their appropriately title debut
full length album The HOLLA!caust. With subject matter that
ranges from sex (Draw the Line) to racism (Fuck All Y’all)
to loneliness (Let’s Settle for Each Other) to anger
(Cunt), The HOLLA!caust is a dynamic pop album filled with
SlowMo Erotic’s singular blend of humor, insight, and
cynicism.
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