Henge Beat

Henge Beat
Studio album by Total Control
Released	7 August 2011
Genre	Post-punk, new wave, indie rock, garage rock
Length	36:44
Label	Iron Lung
Producer	Mikey Young
Total Control chronology

Last updated November 02, 2019

Henge Beat is the debut full-length album by Australian post-punk band Total Control. Produced by band member Mikey Young, the album was released on 7 August 2011 by Iron Lung Records.

Post-punk is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and diverse influences. Inspired by punk's energy and DIY ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with sources including electronic music and black styles like dub, funk, and disco; novel recording and production techniques; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines.

Total Control is an Australian post-punk band that formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2008. The band's line-up includes Mikey Young, Dan Stewart (vocals), Al Montfort (guitar), Zephyr Pavey (bass), and James Vinciguerra (drums). After a series of singles, the band's debut album, Henge Beat, was released in August 2011. Their second album, Typical System, was released in June 2014.

Background

In a 2011 interview with The Quietus , Daniel Stewart explained that he had been reading Friedrich Nietzsche for his honours thesis at the time of the recording for Henge Beat. "I was like, 'I don't want this record to comes across as another contribution to the general theorem of, like, apocalyptic fantasies' and those kinds of things. Because I think that every generation likes to imagine that it's the last generation". Young added, "What I really wanted to say was that this is so narcissistic, this fantasy that we're the last people that are going to experience human thought or whatever. It's just a pattern of human culture that continually generates this terror that our death represents the death of everything. It's ridiculous."^[1]

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner. The site is an editorially independent publication led by Doran with a group of freelance journalists and critics.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889 at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork	7.8/10^[2]
Popmatters	^[3]
Dusted	very favorable^[4]

Henge Beat received generally positive reviews from music critics. Pitchfork Media's Martin Douglas praised the album for not being "simply a 36-minute post-punk genre exercise" and the band for exploring "different realm of possibilities in every song, punctuating creeping lurches with ear-splitting explosions and delivering spacey instrumentals not incredibly far removed from elevator music right after."^[5] Similarly, Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters complimented the various styles evident on the album, ranging from the "King Crimson-tinged 'Shame Thugs'" to the "Joy Division-inspired 'The Hammer'" to the "Sonic Youth-cum-Can-cum-Television romp 'Carpet Rash'" to the "sheer early '80s aggression" of lead single "One More Tonight".^[6] Doug Wallen of The Vine called the album "thin and metallic without being shiny or clean" and said it is "gripped by mood swings, though not to its detriment."^[7]

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. King Crimson have been influential both on the early 1970s progressive rock movement and many contemporary artists. Although the band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history, Robert Fripp is the only consistent member of the group and is considered the band's leader and driving force. The band has earned a large cult following. They were ranked No. 87 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Although considered to be a seminal progressive rock band, they have often distanced themselves from the genre: as well as influencing several generations of progressive and psychedelic rock bands, they have also been an influence on subsequent alternative metal, hardcore and experimental/noise musicians.

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

BrooklynVegan placed Henge Beat on its list of the 26 best albums of 2011, with writer Bill Pearis calling it "a real corker of a debut album."^[8] Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone , ranked it the 7th best album of the year, describing it as "[j]agged postpunk grooves by a bunch of Australian black-leather boys, not the kind of band you invite over for dinner."^[9]

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Robert James Sheffield is an American music journalist and author.

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage of rock music and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine broadened and shifted its focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. It has returned to its traditional mix of content, including music, entertainment, and politics.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Total Control, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"See More Glass"	4:10
2.	"Retiree"	1:59
3.	"One More Tonight"	3:53
4.	"The Hammer"	3:42
5.	"Stonehenge"	2:01
6.	"Carpet Rash"	6:57
7.	"Shame Thugs"	1:00
8.	"No Bibs"	1:35
9.	"Meds"	4:55
10.	"Sunday Baker"	1:54
11.	"Love Performance"	4:29

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References

↑ Leitko, Aaron (8 December 2011). "Fear & Mythologies: An Interview With Total Control". The Quietus . Retrieved 12 April 2014.
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↑ Douglas, Martin (11 January 2012). "Albums: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 12 April 2014.
↑ Beaudoin, Jedd (27 March 2012). "Review: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". PopMatters . Retrieved 12 April 2014.
↑ Wallen, Doug (17 August 2011). "Album Reviews: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". The Vine. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
↑ Pearis, Bill (30 December 2011). "BrooklynVegan's Favorite Albums of 2011". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved 12 April 2014.
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[quietus-1] Leitko, Aaron (8 December 2011). "Fear & Mythologies: An Interview With Total Control". The Quietus . Retrieved 12 April 2014.

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[pitchfork-5] Douglas, Martin (11 January 2012). "Albums: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 12 April 2014.

[popmatters-6] Beaudoin, Jedd (27 March 2012). "Review: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". PopMatters . Retrieved 12 April 2014.

[thevine-7] Wallen, Doug (17 August 2011). "Album Reviews: Total Control - 'Henge Beat'". The Vine. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.

[brooklynvegan-8] Pearis, Bill (30 December 2011). "BrooklynVegan's Favorite Albums of 2011". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved 12 April 2014.

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