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 Pete Townshend The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete – Silver Vinyl Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th April 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pete Townshend The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete – Silver Vinyl £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4780159 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Now More Than Ever Creatrix Rock And Pop | Creatrix Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th March 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Now More Than Ever Creatrix £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Creatrix Records SKU: CTX68786LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View T. 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