Premiere: Hands, ‘Brave Motion’
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The new music made by the hands of Hands – the L.A. quartet of Geoffrey Halliday, Ryan Sweeney, Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff – feels more like a cumulation (rather than derivation) of the a lot of the last decade’s indie-rock. Synths and samples do battle with insistent beats and tricky polyrhythms, with Halliday’s tenor commingling with Sweeney’s choral backup vocals and a thin veneer of reverb. Hands released their “Cities” EP in 2008, but their recent live shows reveal the quartet to be pursuing a more experimental (and less acoustic) pop bent. Foreign Born, Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, a dozen or so Brooklyn acts – a lot of bands could be name-checked here, but Hands are worth holding out your arms for.
||| Download: “Brave Motion”
||| Live: Hands play tonight at It’s a School Night at Bardot, at Spaceland on Dec. 2, at the Glass House (as part of Silverlake in Pomona) on Dec. 10 and at the Echo on Dec. 13.
Hey this is fresh and worth a listen, love that they are not afraid to push vocals as another instrument
Very impressive! This song has a special kind of ‘live’ energy to it, and in my opinion bringing that kind of energy to a studio recorded track is the kind of thing that can only be done by visionary artists.
This song is bumpin’! i let this one rattle the subs in my truck all day, shits like pow pow, this track could mos def use some bass triggers, maybe some 808, shits hot though y’know what i mean