Nuvo's Scott Shoger on Hail The Goer

Whether or not the members of We Are Hex are still living together (in the so-called Hex Haus) in a dubitable near-Southside neighborhood doesn’t matter at this point. Because they’re living in a Hex Haus of the mind. “We ain’t got no fireflies on this side of town / we ain’t got no streetlights to guide our way home,” lead singer Jilly Weiss howls on the opening track, “Birthplace of the Mystics,” to the band’s sophomore album, and first on My Old Kentucky Blog offshoot Roaring Colonel Records, Hail the Goer. Like Moose of Jookabox on his last album Dead Zone Boys, We Are Hex locates a spooky post-industrial wasteland in the ring around downtown Indianapolis. (READ More)