New York duo, The Hundred In The Hands kicks a little more dirt on their shadowy after-hours electro-pop for their sophomore album. There is a darker tone here, with the eerie chill of "Recognise" setting a dangerous, mysterious tone with eerie backing vocals washing through a carefully crafted weave of guitar and bass-thumping beat. The drowsy, off-beat vocals of Eleanore Everdell and the methodical bass thump that make up the sleepily sparse title-track and overstuffed layers of beats, horns, and synth clumsily jumbled together for "Empty Stations" find their experimentation going painfully awry, but the energized pairing of a pounding dance-floor beat and shaggy riffs alongside an alluring vocal and tumbling synth melody on "Come With Me" proves they have the ability to make the chaos work. Still, the duo prove more interesting when delivering moody tunes like the blippy flicker of "Tunnels" than in the tangled, groaning "Stay The Night". The Hundred In The Hands' latest is an uneven album that proves clunky at one point and atmospheric and cool the next. Tracks like the alluring mix of foggy verses and grumbling keyboard-drenched hook on "Keep It Low" will keep you plenty interested in where they head on the next album.
Seek - "Come With Me", "Tunnels", "Recognise"
For fans of - Phantogram
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