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Hinds – ‘Garden’

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Madrid quartet Hinds – Ana Perrote, Carlotta Cosials, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – have been charming listeners with their strain of gloriously ramshackle and instantly addictive lo-fi garage pop, for quite a while now.

Now, Hinds have announced they will release of their debut LP, Leave Me Alone, on January 8th, 2016, via Lucky Number. While the release date seems like a long way away, accompanying this news, is a taste of things to come with the opening track from the album, ‘Garden’. An utterly infectious, sun-drenched lackadaisical garage rock meandering, ‘Garden’, carves out a joyous, carefree identity. A bright and breezy blend of swaying surf-rock and whimsical ’60s garage combine with rumbling drums, scratchy guitars, sunkissed reverb, allure and melody for a brattish indie psych sound. While, dual vocals from Ana Perrote and Carlotta Cosials add an extra touch of infectious exuberance and inherent sassiness. What’s not to like?

You can check out new track ‘Garden’ and some other choice cuts from the Madrid quartet below. Their debut LP, Leave Me Alone, on January 8th, next year and on this evidence at least, we should be in for a treat.

Hinds have a pile of live dates across Europe and N. America, including Vancouver – they play The Rickshaw Theatre, on October 10th w/ The Black Lips and Ariel Pink – check the full list of dates here.

Silverbacks – ‘Fad 1995’

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Dublin based indie/garage quartet Silverbacks, are but a few weeks away from releasing their second album, Hot Bath. which may prove an end of, or new year treat, depending when it arrives.

Their debut album Lotion – released last year as a name-your-price deal on Bandcamp – is rough, ragged and grainy lo-fi garage rock, with wall-to-wall blasts of noise and fuzz. Taken from their forthcoming new record, ‘Fad 1995’, offers an interesting insight to what we can expect. It’s a touch more restrained, introverted and thoughtful (the lyrics in particular). ‘Fad 1995’ retains their lo-fi garage roots, honing and refining their sound with a mix of lethargy and frustration, which is all the better for allowing Dan O’Kelly’s low-toned and world weary vocals come to the fore. A thoroughly enthralling introduction to their forthcoming LP, which is hopefully with us rather sharpish.

For now? You can stream ‘Fad 1995’ below.

Introducing: Sex Hands

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Formed by three childhood friends from the North Wales coast, Sex Hands, then relocated to Manchester where, Alex, Dylan and Edwin were joined by bassist Joe and since 2011 they’ve been gigging and releasing top notch material steadily, culminating in the release of their debut album, Pleh, in July of this year.

Their songs rarely stray from a trusted, noisy formula and Sex Hands are a band with a pretty clear idea of what their sound achieves. It’s a rough, ragged and grainy lo-fi sound of all fuzzed up guitars, barely in tune instruments and often indecipherable lyrics which are generally garbled or screeched. Combining these alternate strands together, they create a whirlwind of energy that falls somewhere between boisterous, motorik punk and hooky garage rock. The repeated use of melodic hooks, a tendency to chuck in everything but the kitchen sink and to hell the consequences, leaves us with a big, jangling, perfectly-imperfect sound which is, needless to say, absolutely marvellous! Their debut LP is not just loud and brash, it’s fun, brazen, catchy, infectious and sweet (and filled with a pile of Friends references too), of which ‘Pivot’, ‘Rembrants’ and ‘Gay Marriage’ are fabulous examples. These are by no means solitary examples, there’s plenty more where that came from on what is a great album and a joyous jangle.

You can check out some choice selections below and Pleh can be yours from here. It won’t let you down.