Mike, Paul and Tom started Hexicon in 2004, beginning life as a lo-fi voice/guitar/french horn combo. Brief sojourns to Wales and regular slots in both London and in Kent has since resulted in the band performing their stripped down, psych-inflected indiepop songs alongside Super Furry Animals, Fanfarlo, Bert Jansch and James Yuill.
More recently, Hexicon have expanded to accommodate a new rhythm section, with Greg and Andy joining on rotating drum schedule and Giles playing bass. 2006 saw them invited to tour Austria with Robert Rotifer and Fuzzman. Since then Tom has carved a reputation as a jobbing French Horn player for a handful of indie bands, featuring on the most recent release by Darren Hayman and performing live with Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts.
Hexicon spent most of 2008 recording, with additional highlights being a session on the Resonance FM Hello Goodbye show and their participation in various activities involving the collective and DIY label, Mentalist Association, including a feature and event run by Dazed & Confused.
‘Something Strange Beneath The Stars’ is the first single taken from the new record ‘The Blossom Sighs’. SSBTS is released on Haircut Records (home of Esiotrot, Houdini and, formally, The Maccabees) on 25th January 2010. You’ll be able to download it or get your hands on a limited edition hand stamped copy! Hexicon are having a launch party for their single on the 21st January at the Luminaire in Kilburn.
‘The Blossom Sighs’ is scheduled for release in early March!
Press
Hexicon make the sound of mellow hillbillies tripping in the countryside
Artrocker
A nice variant of indiepop, complete with french horn and lap steel and other cutesy instruments…definitely something to watch out for.
Central European music journal
If the Beach Boys were from Kent and recorded pet sounds with the audience on percussion.
Electroacoustic Club
Backlash Magazine EP Review:
If this EP contained only the first track, Sweet Things (Born to Die), it would still be worth buying. The song is a bittersweet remembrance of childhood, its ephemeral nature and the naive dreams that as children, we are condemned to let go of just by growing older…That song on its own would be enough. But there is more than just one heartbreakingly wistful song on this E.P. There are, in fact, four more. And they are all beautiful and they all deserve to be heard.
Rob Rotifer has written a biography of Hexicon, click here to read it
