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The Los Angeles-based musical group Uh Huh Her is a 2 piece girl fronted band staring actress/musician Leisha Hailey (of Showtime’s The L Word) and musician Camila Grey (worked with Dr. Dre, Busta Rhymes, Tricky, Kelly Osborne). Their band name was inspired by a PJ Harvey B-side from the identically titled 2004 PJ Harvey album.
The band was born one day in 2006 when CAMILA and LEISHA met by chance at a party. as Camila Says: “Leisha cold-called me some time after and said, “Hi, do you want to start a band?” As I was phasing out of my previous group I was open to it. We met and instantly clicked.” After just two rehearsals, the girls flew to New York to play their first show as UHH to a packed crowd that included a number of industry execs. Our first showcase was crazy,” she remembers. “We were literally thrust from making demos in a bedroom studio to playing for a sold out crowd.”
Uh Huh Her marks Leisha Hailey’s return to music as Hailey was formerly a member of the Lilith Fair vets bands the Murmurs and is also known for her memorable character Alice Pieszecki on Showtime’s acclaimed series “The ‘L’ Word.
The duo released a strongly received debut EP I SEE RED (2007). Issued through its own imprint, Plaid Records, with the help of Nettwerk, the EP included early renditions of “Explode” and “Say So.” That urgent, contagious holdover–the first song Grey and Hailey ever wrote together–is a celebration of devotion (“You say that you’re broken/I just want to fix you”) that sounds even stronger in its new enhanced form.
On the strength of their EP and word of mouth, UH HUH HER has played sold-out shows from Los Angeles to New York and London. “We’re definitely grateful for the fans we have in place,” says Grey. “We’ll never take it for granted. It’s because of our fans that we’ve been able play huge venues like the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London to a sellout crowd.
Less than a year after and continuing their road of success, Uh Huh Her has just released their debut album COMMON REACTION on August 19 via Nettwerk. Produced by Al Clay (Pixies, Blur, Pink), the 11-song offering captivates the listener out of the gate from the opening notes of its pulsing debut single “Not A Love Song,” for which the duo just wrapped a surreal video with the production team Draw Pictures (Depeche Mode, The Bravery, Franz Ferdinand, Mark Ronson).
Uh Huh Her’s sound – a self-described indie electro-pop hybrid – is a unique and organic product of Hailey and Grey’s styles. “The sound is the evolution from our backgrounds,” Grey says. “We slammed them all together and that’s what came out.” Their music has a sultriness that crashes head on with the profound, both cosmic and carnal; it is replete with elastic bass lines, ambient synths and backbeats that will seduce to the core.
“We wrote a lot of it before we went in the studio, but we wound up re-cutting everything,” Grey says of the 11-track album. “We wanted to make a commercially appealing record. The songs aren’t specifically poppy but appeal to a wide variety of people.”
“Sometimes the song just calls for it and you can’t fight the pop,” Hailey laughs. “I like that it’s eclectic and not just one thing. That bores me in a record. We never wanted this band to be small.”
“We’ve really learned to collaborate,” Hailey says. “We were getting to know each other as individuals and musicians and travel mates. It just all came at the same time. I feel like we fell into what it’s supposed to be now.” While Hailey got her pedigree in indie rock early on, Grey grew from a childhood of classical piano studies and a father-fed Neil Diamond diet to playing bass and keys for lo-fi indie rock band Mellowdrone, and providing vocals for film score composer Hans Zimmer, Dr. Dre and Busta Rhymes, among others. “It’s such a weird world,” Grey says. “Here I am, little me with all of these hip-hop superstars. It’s cool because I come from this indie rock, electronic thing. To go into that world and have the two collide is really interesting. Rather than cast her producing talents aside, Grey brought them to the forefront, lending her talents to both I See Red and Common Reaction. “It’s so much fun to be able to start with a drum track and literally build something out of nothing,” Grey says. “I’m really drawn to layering instruments and seeing how they all relate to one another. I love producing vocals. I think ultimately it’s the vocal that makes the song and carries it.”
With Common Reaction, Hailey and Grey are looking to a horizon that’s as expansive as their sound – which is to say, seemingly infinite. “We’re getting a chance that a lot of bands aren’t,” Hailey says. “It’s just about us showing up and proving that we can do it.”
Common Reaction
by Uh Huh Her
US Release Date: August 19, 2008
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nettwerk Records
Buy Album: Click Here
EXPLODE
NOT A LOVE SONG
UH HUH HER ROCKSTAR GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF UHH – PHOTOSHOOT
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF UHH
About the author : Alias is a French self-made-man, multi-talented artist, he is also a music-producer, screen writer and artistic director for films. Read more from this author
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