Hind Ear are a very exciting prospect with their jerky beats and calming vocals – I can’t and don’t want to liken them to anyone or place them in a genre as there just simply isn’t any need, you can make your own mind up. Listening to them, especially track ‘Rain Man’ can be placed anywhere between first thing in the morning and last thing at night where it sits very comfortably creating the atmosphere you want whether it’s during a gentle morning stroll or a dance floor moment.
Here is what the band had to say when wecantmixandwedontcare! interviewed them......
Who are you and where are you from?
hind ear. From Brighton and London – although one is basically a suburb of the other at this point.
Describe Hind Ear sound in three words:
Not too dense.
Where does your band name originate from?
From band name discussions that went on so long as to lapse into complete abstraction. None of us can remember the exact train of ideas that led to hind ear – although I feel it might have something to do with Broken Ear Record by Black Dice. It works well for us though – organic but also technical, like a G.M. experiment gone wrong.
The best and worst band you have ever been compared to?
The worst are the boring and obvious ones. Best –when it’s something that makes no sense, but in a good way. Someone once said we sounded like the Bhundu Boys. Generally, we like it when people pick up on the deeper traces of the things that influence us – house music, r&b, Fleetwood Mac.
The strangest summation of your band and or songs?
From the Bhundu Boys to Black Dice: as a collective summation that’s pretty strange.
What’s next for Hind Ear?
We just released our first 7” on a new label called Nouns. Another one should be following in the next couple of months, on Maman Records of France. After that – lining up more records and shows. We’ve been working on a bunch of recordings and new songs that we’re pretty excited about. Some sweet shows coming up too. On the whole a fair bit of exciting stuff.
Finally, who would you choose to be an honorary member of Hind Ear for one night only? Tell us why and what would they do?
David Byrne – dancing. He could do variations of the lamp dance from Stop Making Sense all night long.
You can purchase Hind Ear’s debut double A-side ‘Coconut/Origami’ released on the London label Nouns here and you can catch them playing live throughout September with the likes of Cold Pumas and Future Islands.
