Hairband Hairband SKU: MM02 Barcode: MM02 13.00 £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Monorail Music Released Date: 19th October 2018 Buying Format: 12" EP/Mini Album Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Bursting forth in a riot of colour, Hairband are a new five piece group from Glasgow who, on their debut recordings, have distilled the joy and bittersweet trials of youth into 5 songs that bend to no rules but the ones they make up as they go along. Deeply immersed in their local DIY scene and featuring members of groups Spinning Coin, Breakfast Muff, Lush Purr and Kaputt, Hairband’s take on pop music is their own, so natural yet odd-shaped, carefree but meticulously constructed that it feels like no one has quite made music quite like this before, celebratory and joyful. Recorded in Glasgow’s famed Green Door Studios, and played in the moment, Hairband are life-giving. Hairband formed in 2016, by Glasgow DIY standards that makes them veterans. Their instinctively intricate triple-guitar lines deftly weave counterpoint and melodies which interact with Sephi Lock and Emma Smith’s elastic, breathing rhythm section. The music here presents as streamlined pop but bubbling beneath the hooks is audacious instrumental work. Indeed, the tension at the heart of Hairband’s music is a group who can play without it sounding like a big deal. Is this a Glasgow thing, because Orange Juice were a bit like that, Sacred Paws too. Hairband even try on a little Marquee Moon-era Television on Sassy Moon and make it fit like the best charity shop find ever. They’re a band with five songwriters, each distinct with a uniqueness barely containable except within Hairband. The synergy of the group often means that individual personalities are immersed in the whole, so when Rachel Taylor’s voice is isolated at the end of Flying – a sweet but sure ode to gravity, about trying to stay grounded when the world is spinning – it’s all the more affecting. The play of light and shade throughout the record is deftly handled: opener Bee has an intricate rhythmic accompaniment, sounding a little like Life Without Buildings’ jittery polyrhythms married to a sweet ensemble vocal performance topped off with melodically nourishing guitar licks. It’s a formula repeated on Bubble Sword, with guitarists Rowan Wright and Simone Wilson’s twin chords criss crossing across the stereo-field before a straight down the line, loaded rock riff skewers the prettiness. On the flip side, Hairband’s true instrumental prowess is on 10. Sassy Moon rolls out with the confidence of a band completely in tune with each other, Wilson’s vocal dancing across the treetops, Morricone-esque guitar slashes providing vivid colour. With Lock and Smith’s tight-but-loose rhythm loping purposefully and the group backing vocals washing over, suddenly the line “How do you feel? How do you feel… about the moon?” feels like the most important question you’ll ever be asked. White Teeth sums up every high on this epic self-titled debut. A stomping rhythm shrouded in soft melancholy emboldened by the band’s glorious sense of harmony. It could be a critique of beauty norms, a ghostly memory of an ideal unattainable but ultimately when the band are locked in like this it’s a source of pure joy, it goes beyond subject matter into wordless communication. Hairband is an ode to doing things differently, true, to standing together with your friends, to having respect for what’s gone before but also to carving your own niche. It’s simple, it’s not so simple, as Chic say, “celebrate good times”, Hairband seem to say, celebrate the times. Artist Hairband Genre Rock And Pop Label Monorail Music Buying Options 12" EP/Mini Album Format 12" , EP/Mini Album Condition New Country UK Track Listings Bee Bubble Sword Flying Sassy Moon White Teeth Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Frokedal How We Made It Rock And Pop | Propeller Recordings | 1LP Released 28th September 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frokedal How We Made It £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Propeller Recordings SKU: PRR345 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trans Am Volume X Rock And Pop | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th August 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trans Am Volume X £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL366LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beatles, The And Tony Sheridan In The Beginning Rock And Pop | Wax Cathedral | 180g, 1LP Released 25th June 2012 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beatles, The And Tony Sheridan In The Beginning £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Wax Cathedral SKU: MELT001 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Black Star Riders All Hell Breaks Loose Rock And Pop | Nuclear Blast | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th May 2013 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Black Star Riders All Hell Breaks Loose £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nuclear Blast SKU: NB3069-1 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nathan Grey Nthn Gry Rock And Pop | End Hits | 1LP Released 7th August 2015 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathan Grey Nthn Gry £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: End Hits SKU: EHRLP14 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lionel Richie Dancing On The Ceiling Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lionel Richie Dancing On The Ceiling £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 5781828 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elvis Presley Elvis is Back Rock And Pop | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 28th June 2010 £65.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elvis Presley Elvis is Back £65.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPP2231 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 28th June 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sugar Ray Lemonade & Brownies Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 25th September 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sugar Ray Lemonade & Brownies £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1491 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Reef In Motion – Live From Hammersmith Rock And Pop | Ear Music | 2LP, Includes BluRay Released 29th March 2019 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Reef In Motion – Live From Hammersmith £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ear Music SKU: 0213774EMU Formats: 2LP, Includes BluRay Released Date: 29th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jeb Loy Nichols and the Westwood All-Stars June Is Short, July Is Long Rock And Pop | Compass | 1LP Released 5th July 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jeb Loy Nichols and the Westwood All-Stars June Is Short, July Is Long £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Compass SKU: COM47331 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th July 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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