Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Cut Off Your Hands

Add Date: August 16 

Artist: Cut Off Your Hands 

Album: Hollow 

Label: Frenchkiss 

Genre: Rock, pop 

Comments: Cut Off Your Hands has honed and tweaked its sound quite a bit for the sophomore LP Hollow. While the influence of The Smiths and Orange Juice could certainly be heard on 2008 debut You and I, that record veered more toward the post-punk end of the spectrum; at times, it would have been easy to confuse these Kiwis with your standard British rock band.

Thus, the poppier change--as in, more stylistically indebted to The Bats (Cut Off Your Hands' New Zealand forebears), Echo & the Bunnymen or even The Byrds--is a good one for the band. Start with "All It Takes", "You Should Do Better" and "Down & Out".

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