Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny: Article: Making of the second album

Beth Jeans Houghton created a new blog post on October 28th which included a great information: ‘for now we are focusing on packing up our shit and moving to LA to record album 2’. And as if it wasn't exciting enough, the whole band continued to give us details of their progress.

Calum, who is the newest Hoof, took a chance to introduce himself, assure us they really are working on the second album ('We are currently in Los Angeles. We are recording the second album in an amazing studio with some amazing people, it's sounding amazing and we are all really excited about it.'), and give us a little hint: 'we are all veeeery excited about album 2. It's sort of psychedelic-60's-motown-gospel-rock'n'roll-punk-pop-freakbeat-afrobeat-surf'.

Ed decided to make us jealous with their new guitars, which I'm sure will sound amaaaazing.

After a few days Rory said they were 'almost half way through our recording sessions and things are going well, we haven't wanted to kill eachother yet! The songs are coming together nicely, and I can't wait to hear the finished result.'

Ed talked a little bit about using those new guitars, and, again, I'm sure it'll sound amaaaaazing. He also told us what were some of the artists that inspire them. 'We've been swimming in a sea of amps and pedals trying out possible combinations to get where we want with the guitar sounds... (...) Inspirational sounds from Lemon Pipers, Ultimate Spinach, Jefferson Airplane and a cheeky bit of Sabbath have been helping us find our way (...)'.

And about that amaaaaazing sound, Calum say the same thing: 'We're still recording the second album in LA. It's sounding amazing.' Some interesting things happened in the studio, but it's good everything's fine. 'In the studio today, Blazey played an instrument which is a cross between a sitar and a guitar. There were also several loud explosions on the roof, and the police and the fire service came.'

It turned out the whole experience was a life changing process. 'Immersing ourselves in the creation of this album has so far been an incredible and eye opening experience. The amount we are learning is as joyful as making the music itself, from the simplest of things like obvious tricks to re-stringing a guitar that we've somehow never considered, to the shared wisdom of our producer/engineer and his trusty sidekick (Phillip Broussard Jr & Adam Fuller), and the definition of new words such as 'efficacious' (successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective).'

Right now you can only wait for the second album and another tour... and also watch some pics: