Hooveriii’s “Pointe” Album Download Leak MP3 ZIP Files
Hooveriii, a Los Angeles-based band, has revealed a new song from their upcoming album, “Pointe,” which will be released on October 13 through The Reverberation Appreciation Society/Levitation. The track “Dreaming” features vocals by Alice Wallace and is an epic future-folk experimentation and album closer. Bert Hoover, the band’s member, describes the song as “the border where dreams become nightmares, a lullaby of contradictions, a love song? A little homage to Angelo Badalamenti.”
Hooveriii will be performing songs from their latest album and fan favorites as the direct support act for Mudhoney next week. The band previously opened for Mudhoney during their 2022 European Tour. The tour dates will begin on October 12 in Tacoma, WA, and will make stops in New York City at Le Poisson Rouge on October 28 and at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on November 14. The tour will conclude in Seattle with a two-night stop at The Crocodile Showroom on November 19 (21+) and November 20 (all ages).
While creating “Pointe,” Hooveriii was drawn to the sounds of the ’60s psychedelic act Pisces, Phil Lynott’s solo releases, and pioneering electronic acts like Tangerine Dream. The album features a collection of songs that is perhaps their most accessible yet, exploring the phenomenon of time, precisely the moment leading up to each decision where, for a brief instant, there are infinite possibilities that have yet to be distilled into a singular outcome.
Hooveriii has previously released “The Tall Grass” and, more recently, “The Ship That I Sail,” a song that teems with fuzzed-out guitar wizardry. The music roster on “Pointe” features Hoover, Kaz Mirblouk, James Novick, Owen Barrett, Gabe Flores, Gabriel Salomon, Wallace, Paco Casanova, Matt Zuk, Jon Modaff, Shaughnessy Starr, Olaf Selland, and Ari B. Jones.
Unlike previous releases, “Pointe” was recorded over an extended period and was both consciously and subconsciously inspired by the touring the band did in support of 2021’s “Water For The Frogs” and 2022’s “A Round Of Applause.” Hoover adds, “I’m really grateful for all of the people who contributed to this album, and it’s a long list of people, but it’s important that they are all listed because we all really pulled together to make this album.”
“Every record is kind of a response to the last record, and I like listening to people’s discographies like that,” Hoover explains. “When we finished ‘A Round Of Applause,’ we were in rock mode playing with a lot of rock and psych bands, and I was really thinking about what do you do with a fourth record?” The answer turns out to be something more esoteric and less predictable than a guitar-driven album while retaining the core of the band’s sound, which has made the Los Angeles-based act such an exciting show to watch evolve.
“Pointe” is an album that references the past while stretching toward an unknown future. “I think that our intuition going forward is to keep ourselves surprised and keep people who like us surprised, hopefully without isolating anyone,” Hoover adds. More than anything else, “Pointe” feels like a full circle moment for Hooveriii, which has evolved from a bedroom solo project into an expansive band that features an army of talented musicians and contributors. “In a lot of ways, ‘Pointe’ feels like an epilogue to one phase of the band and a prologue to the next one,” Hoover says of how the band’s latest release fits into their musical catalog.
“Pointe” is a collection of songs that weren’t recorded linearly buter in a way that feels almost cosmic. In other words, it’s Hooveriii at its most creative and undistilled. “I don’t really care about trying to push the envelope forward,” Hoover admits, looking back at the long road leading up to completing the album. “I care about making a good record that sounds cohesive and I feel like with this one, we did a good job.”
TRACKLIST
- Prom
- The Tall Grass
- This Rock
- Can’t You Hear Me Calling
- I Am Alive
- The Game
- Circling the Square
- The Ship That I Sail
- Dreaming