{"id":64364,"date":"2016-02-10T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=64364"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:07:23","slug":"new-noise-mass-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2016\/02\/10\/new-noise-mass-gothic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Mass Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-Hooray For Earth frontman, Noel Heroux resurfaces as Mass Gothic.<\/span>
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After almost a decade of leading New York rock group Hooray For Earth, Noel Heroux got disillusioned. Thankfully, not enough so to abandon music altogether but enough to dissemble the band. Hooray For Earth had once begun as a solo project so Heroux went back to what he knew and began Mass Gothic in the winter of 2014. Jessica Zambri eventually climbed aboard and they clambered into a bath together and ran around the streets of New York to film the video for “Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me”.<\/p>\n

Mass Gothic’s\u00a0sound has the same longing, likeable vocals as\u00a0Is This It<\/em> era Strokes, like you’re personally being addressed in the lyrics. It’s that irresistable heavy guitar sound with a pop sheen. Even on “Nice Night”, where they begin to err on the darker side, there’s still a light at the end of the tunnel in the exuberant guitar fuzz-filled climax. The self-titled debut album came out last week, with mixing\u00a0provided by Chris Coady and\u00a0mastering done by Greg Calbi\u00a0it’s impressive first offering. We decided it was time to catch up with Heroux.<\/p>\n