Young, talented, unique, a breath of fresh air. That is We All Have Hooks For Hands . Hailing from the small metropolis of Sioux Falls, South Dakota this nine member collective have just released their debut album "The Pretender" on Afternoon Records . Believe me, it's good, real good. Echoing the rapturous sounds of Broken Social Scene, but with a more folk feel, there is an unbridled pure joy to their music. It's not just a reflection of their youth but also an indication of the uplifting sounds they are producing. "How it would sound if [...]
Release Date: 04.03.07 I've been keeping this record under my hat for a while now, but it is finally time to let the rest of you know about this interesting group from Sioux Falls, SD. They are We All Have Hooks For Hands, and are another super-sized indie rock band. When I say super-sized, I am referring to the sheer number of members, which WAHHFH has a total of nine. While they don't have the oomph of some of the other larger groups, such as Arcade Fire, what they lack in terms of sound they [...]
I have been ultra busy these days with filmfest and work, but it's Memorial day and 4 BBQs later I have hours to spare! yay! We's gots all kindsa music for you guys. Adult Swim has already dropped two FREE albums and they are at it again but this time with an indie/electronic mix. Get Warm and Scratchy free here ! Also please check out Laura Burhenn ; her writing and melodies are the illest! [...]
I love it when i find a new band and fall madly in love with them on first listen...this happened to me when i first heard the band We All Have Hooks for Hands ...a 9 piece collective from sioux falls, south dakota...they have a little bit of everything i am loving these days...their debut album 'The Pretender' came out last month...you can order it through their myspace page We All Have Hooks For Hands-Hold On C'mon if you love beirut, the boy least likely too, i'm from [...]
Indie sports fans, here are my assembled thoughts on teams and their selections in this year's NFL Draft... Cleveland Browns - You gotta think the Browns are thrilled with how the draft went. Expected to take Brady Quinn with the number three overall pick, they end up getting the best offensive lineman in the draft and still got Quinn by trading up out of round two to number 22 in round one. They also got CB Eric Wright who will have a big impact on the defense. Considering they won't [...]
We All Have Hooks For Hands - Hold On, C'mon The Earlies - The Devil's Country Radio America - Aim High In Steering Die Romantik - Tik Tok Peel - In The City Pulp - Razzmatazz (via Obscure Sound ) Interpol - Untitled (Datassette mix) Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time Robert Gomez - Closer Still Jens Lekman - Black Cab
Image: Inca Half Staff Stomp - The Dying Californian The Dying Californian's 2003 album We Are the Birds That Stay leads off with this great, anthemic song called "Prairie Fire" -- a sloppy, huge-chorused track that should have been as "big" as Band of Horses' "Funeral" and for similar reasons. It bypasses the original gut-punch of grief for the full-bloom ritual of mourning (to borrow from Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking : "Grief [...]
... & I can feel it in the air Husky Rescue - New Light Of Tomorrow * Captain - Glorious (Radio Slave Remix) * Saturna - Springboard Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy,Hey Girl We All Have Hooks For Hands - Hold On,C'mon Jessica Jones - Blinds Pulled Up Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl Linkin Park - Dust In The Wind (Acoustic [...]
How many band members does it take to have a good band? Sometimes only two, sometimes four, and sometimes a lot more. We All Have Hooks For Hands has nine. Dueling drummers, a violinist, three guitars, two horn/keyboard players, and a bassist. I'd say they sound a bit like a handful of bands I'm familiar with. Tap Tap and Canadian indie rock bands like Wolf Parade & other Spencer Krug projects are in there. Lots of percussion and shouting like Rock Plaza Central or Arcade Fire, horns that make me make [...]
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We All Have Hooks For Hands from Sioux Falls creates experimental folk pop songs. To accommodate their long name, the group has a long list of members - - nine of them. I've been listening all morning, trying to figure out what all of them are doing. I'm convinced that some of them just sit around. Either way, the songs are upbeat and catchy. Add this Band on Myspace [...]
(I did an image search for "title" and this came up!?!) More than you probably have time to listen to… but these great songs have been in my inbox for awhile now. Check on it! We All Have Hooks For Hands ~ Hold On, C'mon (best 9-piece band from Sioux Falls, ever. A Midwest Broken Social Scene, perhaps?) Kristoffer Ragnstam ~ Breakfast By The Mattress (sorta kids music meets Scissor Sisters) Thomas Lunch ~ Tator [...]
I'm sick of 29-piece family bands. Sure, the Arcade Fire might be cute when they mutter "Pass the bread, s'il vous plait " around the table, but all this "gang membership" mentality (I'm From Barcelona, I'm looking at you!) tends to leave me with a toothache and sugarplum visions of the Polyphonic Spree. That is, until I met We All Have Hooks for Hands . For this South Dakota collective making their long-player debut ("The Pretender" - not Jackson Browne) on Afternoon Records next week, the Arcade Fire comparisons would seem to [...]
It's spring again! I think I mention this on Robots every year, but I can't help it: spring music just may be the best kind. And some contenders always come to mind, most namely Modest Mouse's "Float On," "Fresh Feeling" by Eels, anything by Go! Team. Spring songs are ones that just sound like renewal, like everybody waking up. This is what I think of when I hear We All Have Hooks For Hands. We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Man Trying To Outfox Us All. Fun! What I really want is for these Minneapolis guys - a...
It has been quite a while since I last updated this blog. Yeah, yeah I know I promised to update more often after the last sabbatical, but I got sidetracked. For a while. A looooooooong while. Anyways, the band that I think you have to check out the most during the downtime I've had has to be We All Have Hooks for Hands. I'm going to dive into real blogger territory here and hype this band like the other bloggers would. This shit is the second coming. Forget Voxtrot, forget the [...]
Time for some new music I feel. So new, that they don't have any tracks posted on Hype Machine . Which either means my finger is so on the pulse that I'm at the cutting edge of the scene. Or everybody else has heard them, hates them and I'm so far off the pulse that I can't even detect it. Not that either particularly bothers me. I just like this band, that's all. And how could I not? First off there's the name which just made me curious enough to listen. Just the [...]
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