Horror of the Hexham Heads, by The Night Monitor

Horror of the Hexham Heads

by The Night Monitor

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alienasu Feels like an interesting next step for TNM. more layers, harsher at times, and scarier than any previous work. Still the synths and structure are undeniably TNM, playfully spooky all around. Would kill for further development of this style with another alien topic (or repress of Spaceman) but the album topic here is undeniably interesting and probably his best go at soundtracking these kinds of stories. it feels like a film, superb stuff Favorite track: Night Shapes.

codeprefix perfect for my upcoming séance, thanks neil!! 💘

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Released by Library of the Occult (LOTO 033).
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'Hexham Stone' grey vinyl.
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1.	Clearing the Earth 02:35	buy track
2.	Night Shapes 03:03	buy track
3.	Bedroom Intruder 01:41	buy track
4.	The Witch 02:19	buy track
5.	Images in Stone 02:21	buy track
6.	How Does Your Garden Glow? 00:57	buy track
7.	The Head Cult 03:05	buy track
8.	The Skull 02:57	buy track
9.	Ancient or Modern? 02:32	buy track
10.	Psychic Playback 02:28	buy track
11.	Thoughtform 03:01	buy track
12.	The Doctor and the Werewolf 03:39	buy track
13.	Twilight of the Celtic Gods 07:26	buy track

about

1971. Hexham, Northumberland. Two young brothers, Colin and Leslie Robson, unearth a pair of mysterious carved stone heads in their family garden. The discovery sparks a series of bizarre events, including poltergeist phenomena, reports of a half-human, half-sheep-like entity seen by neighbours, and a terrifying encounter with a werewolf-like creature recounted by Celtic scholar Dr. Anne Ross.

"A glorious celebration of one of the weirdest supernatural news stories of the 1970s. Genuine spine-tingling electronic chills ... " Bob Fischer (hauntedgeneration.co.uk)

Further reading:

'Quest for the Hexham Heads' by Paul Screeton (CFZ 2010)
Fortean Times 294 & 295 ['In Search of the Hexham Heads' by Stuart Ferrol] (2012)
Hellebore No. 5 ['The Hexham Mystery' by Kenneth Brophy] (2021)
hexhamheads.wordpress.com

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"It’s a splendid record, an evocative collection of sinister synth instrumentals and rather alarming soundscapes." Bob Fischer - Fortean Times

"Horror Of The Hexham Heads is The Night Monitor's first album for the ever reliable Library Of The Occult: a match made in ... well, certainly not heaven (but you get the idea) for lovers of vintage creeps. Packed with electronic thrills that conjure the most frightening corners of radiophonic soundtracks, Horror Of The Hexham Heads is spine-tinglingly good." Camilla Aisa - Shindig

"Neil Scrivin retells this curious tale with typical Radiophonic relish. So the sinister synths of 'Bedroom Intruder' are the half-man, half-sheep creature that terrorised the boys' neighbours, while the alarming ambience of 'The Doctor And The Werewolf' is a homage to Dr Anne Ross, the specialist in Celtic carvings who investigated the case and was pursued by ... well, you guessed it. She's alright nooooow." Bob Fischer - Electronic Sound

"The Night Monitor ... has provided the perfect soundtrack to the story and my continuing experience of it. Take any one track from his new album, Horror of The Hexham Heads, and it will rekindle, with unerring accuracy, the creeping dread that I felt on my first post-Nationwide ascent of that Aldershot staircase. So for that I should say thank you Night Monitor, for crafting such a chillingly good album and completing the picture. At least, I think should." Richard Stokoe - logofiasco.com

"Neil Scrivin has truly cornered the market in freaky electronic music inspired by unexplained phenomena and paranormal activity ... Scrivin has assuredly outdone himself this time, stripping his compositions back to almost skeletal forms. ‘The Witch’, one of my favourite pieces, pairs rich and resonant synth sweeps with scratchy, nails-on-glass screeching that had me glancing at the window to make sure nothing was trying to break in (and, for context, I was in a plane flying at 35,000 feet in the air at the time). The shortest interlude here, ‘How Does Your Garden Glow’, is one of the collection’s finest moments. It might last barely a minute but its edgy, metronomic pacing and unwinding, slowly-writhing melody is – no pun intended – wonderfully haunting." Mat Smith - furtherdot.com

"It’s always a good day when The Night Monitor pops up with a release. Here Neil Scrivin serves up ‘Horror Of The Hexham Heads’ ... All of which is classic The Night Monitor. This stuff weirds me out, I never know what’s real and what isn’t." Neil Mason - moonbuilding.substack.com

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released April 5, 2024

Written, produced and performed by Neil Scrivin.
Artwork by Jordan Warren.

Recorded 2019 - 2022.

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