Hounds of the Wild Hunt — The Monarch Review

El Mago – Hounds of the Wild Hunt

Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:50 — 0 Comments

With a name like Hounds of the Wild Hunt and an album titled “El Mago,” it’s hard to know exactly what you’re going to get before you listen to this Seattle band’s first full-length record. Thoughts of folky, beard-inspired harmonies and rich guitar sounds whizzed around curiously in my head. Yet visions of a hardcore band looking to tear someone’s face off at every chord change circled in my mind as well. Or, “Maybe it’s going to be a pop album,” I thought. What I found out: with Hounds of the Wild Hunt, it’s all of the above, which is […]