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HANDS ON HEADS are a quartet from London who stand up for premeditated sunshine punk. Finding inspiration in the unresting experimentation of groups like XTC and the Associates, as well as the no-nonsense approach of grunge, the group discovered a set of songs that uncover the surprise and revolutionary potential of our everyday lives through dysfunctional pop music. Drums leap, pound and skip allowing the hyper-melodic bass and organ lines to entwine. The vocals and guitar often double up and push and pull the songs around their haunted compass.

Hands On Heads - 2007 - Tough Fun

















Artist: Hands On Heads
Title: Tough Fun
Country: UK
Release Date: 10.08.2007
Genre: Experimental
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Cat.#: UTR033
Quality: 320 kbps / 44,1 kHz / Joint Stereo

Tracklist
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01. Bad Faith [02:57]
02. Another Mountain [02:50]
03. New Fiction [02:45]
04. Rabbit Heaven [01:41]
05. Down Time [03:51]
06. Kind Slang [02:04]
07. Phantom Island [02:00]
08. Nervous Poison [03:19]
09. Think Big [02:02]
10. Rope Trick [00:52]
11. Brain Bows [02:01]
12. Haunted House [02:01]
13. Unreal City [03:05]

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T.I.T.S are four ladies from San Francisco known singularly as Kim West, Abbey Kerins, Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough and Wendy Farina. Their name is a "revolving" acronym, with one of the finer ones being Technicolor Inner Troll Syndrome. The quartet ply their trade in a kind of witchy, experimental doom-laden pop, which could easily evoke reminiscences as diverse as Sabbath, The Shop Assistants, Boris, or Christian Death with some Terry Riley/Eno repetition added for good measure. The T.I.T.S sound is underpinned by Mary Elizabeth's tumbling darkened bass lines and Wendy's totally animal drum pound. Abbey's guitar lays down the acerbic riff, while Kim's emits a subtly oscillating sheet of feedback. Over the top, all four harmonise with a kind of semi-operatic, fantasy whisper. The effect is this inexplicable feel of time-travelling castle metal - of four ladies of the lake casting forth a single Excalibur, sinking it into stone so deep, no Arthur shall ever wield it.

T.I.T.S. - 2009 - Second Base


















Artist: T.I.T.S.
Title: Second Base
Country: USA
Release Date: 30.03.2009
Genre: Experimental
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Cat.#: UTR024
Quality: 320 kbps / 44,1 kHz / Joint Stereo

Tracklist
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01. Void [03:41]
02. Childs [05:42]
03. Thighs [05:08]
04. Octopus [08:18]
05. Mute Force [03:04]
06. Echoes [03:58]
07. Golden Cage [01:19]
08. Brown Mountain [02:23]
09. Ghosts [03:54]

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