Hinds Essentials

Hinds Essentials

From the moment they crashed onto the scene in 2014, Spanish four-piece Hinds have marched to the beat of their own occasionally arhythmic drum. “Bamboo” was their early calling card: a drowsy, scrappy lullaby that saw co-frontwomen Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote’s rolling harmonies give early 2000s garage rock revivalism a distinctly ramshackle Spanish accent. But their raucous energy (let us not forget that kazoo solos were a feature of early live shows) always comes undergirded by a melodic sure-footedness. Gordon Raphael-produced second record I Don’t Run brought judiciously smoothed sonic edges and elegantly wasted late-night tales (“The Club”, “Soberland”). And now, Brooklyn-made new album The Prettiest Curse—as especially evidenced by the knockabout cool of “Just Like Kids (Miau)”—continues their fealty to a kind of life-giving, exuberant chaos.

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