When the Growlers put out their "Greatest sHits" compilation and their subsequent "Couples Vol 1-8" series there was no doubt the writing team of Brooks Nielsen and Matt Taylor and their band of merry menacers could output as many songs about the Growler life as they wanted to.The question would be what of that output to put out.

Now, with several moon cycles and a couple hundred tunes behind them, The Growlers are set to release their latest batch of sonic brownies, "Hung at Heart", January 22 via Everloving Records, and yes their goodies are still laced with that psychedelic circus of surf, sex, and hobo trance, boom boom twang that makes for a hell of a high!

However, getting these treats out of the oven wasn't all that easy. Indie Iron Chef, Dan Auerbach, had initially tried his hand in the kitchen but when the dish ended up overcooked, the Growlers brought it back to the home kitchen, drank the juice and started over.

Warning to the hipster savants: This is a Growlers record. Fuzzy genius and working class logic mix easily in love songs that extol the virtues of the free market in mate selection (One Million Lovers). "Some Day" opens up the Hope and Magic aisle in the sentimental supermarket where Nielsen sings about turning 'bologna into steak and tallboys into champagne.' The real magic however, has been the relentless pursuit of happiness on the road while traveling throughout the hundreds of gigs performed to get from Costa Mesa to London to Brazil and back. At every stop along the way the kids and creeps have joined the Beach Goth caravan that is the Growlers experience. It is the experience they have coined that has landed them on the big stages of Coachella (where their set began at 4:20) and Lollapalooza 2012 and though nothing in life is certain, one thing will always remain true: The Growlers will continue to live a simple blend of surfing and experimentation, both in music and road dog life.

"The Archetype of a Rock and Roll band." - Devendra Banhart

"Long simmering in the city's underground, THE GROWLERS recently gained a devoted fan base that extends beyond the rock club circuit....the band is killer live, suggesting a combination of surf-rock, psycho-billy and barroom rock." - LA Times

"Surely becoming the band to see for anybody and everybody...The Growlers will rule the universe."

— The World Famous KROQ

"If we were in England and they were a British group, they'd be on the cover of NME as one of the up-and-coming bands...it’s a band that is going to do some damage."

— LA Times

"Noise bandits who travel the country in a patched-together schoolbus – if that's not enough of an easy sell, their explosive live performances will definitely do the trick. They're basically the audio equivalent of sneaking out of your parents house as a teenager, hijacking a motorcycle, and racing to a house party in the middle of nowhere."

— 'Sup Magazine

"The members of the Growlers could be any one of Old Dirty Bastard's illegitimate children. They are hallucinogen personified, and could potentially be responsible for ending racism forever, at best they'll be able to cure Klinefelter's syndrome."

— Jelly NYC

"If David Lynch were to film a Scooby-Doo movie, The Growlers would have to do the soundtrack."

— Knoxville News Sentinel 

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