Hundred Mile House - September/October 2004
Who: Hundred Mile House
What: soul to the devil
Where: Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
To Contact: Christine A. Liebig of Higher Ground Entertainment, 2anamcara@sympatico.ca, (519) 589-5923, www.hundredmilehouse.com
With three of the five songs co-produced by The Tea Party’s Jeff Martin at Metalworks, the other two by Peter Boshart and Hundred Mile House bassist/vocalist Larsen Liebig at Sonicadisturbia, this self-titled EP is heavy, menacing and dark. Frontman Pete Thompson has the perfect threatening rock voice for such music, and Liebig, drummer Anthony Nuic and guitarist Ritch Meiszinger are a tight unit. It’s surprising the Kitchener-Waterloo, ON band has been together for almost a decade, and that these five songs are the first to get national distribution (through MapleNationWide). It probably helps that the band is endorsed by Martin. In addition to producing, he also plays lead guitar on the first single, “Face to Face”, piano on “Genevieve” and joins Liebig on backing vocals for “River’s Edge”. HMH has also opened for The Tea Party on many occasions. While Thompson has a predilection for the word “soul” in the lyrics of all five songs, musically the EP ranges from the pummeling lead track, “Face To Face” to the groovier “Rivers Edge” and creepier industrial-grind of “Genevieve”. A full album is reportedly due in the New Year.
