“We had some material that we wanted to put down before [bassist] Nick Prather moved to Durham,” says Hello Hugo keyboard player Rosser Douglas. The band (including guitarist Justin Holt and percussionist Reid Weigner) set out to record a few songs while holed up in a cabin during a weekend in March 2015. “We ended up playing and recording so much that we found ourselves with enough to cut into a cohesive album.” If Section Secrets, a nine-track mix of rock, experimental and ambient sounds (the bristling, thrashy-folk of “Hash Brown” is welcomingly celebratory; “Importing” is all dark thrum and resonance) will be released with a show — featuring the band’s full original lineup — at The Mothlight on Sunday, Dec. 18, at 9:30 p.m. Sharing the bill, Weigner’s other project, Giant Giants, drops its first full-length album. $5. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of Hello Hugo
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