Each time they take the stage, Madrid-bred rock band Hinds create a kind of wild magic, a feel-good free-for-all often complete with synchronized dancing and giddy crowd-surfing from the members themselves. While the band's first two albums channeled the euphoric energy of their live show in their gorgeously punchy take on garage-rock, their latest full-length adds entirely new texture to their sound. Produced by Jenn Decilveo (The Wombats, Ben Platt and Anne-Marie), The Prettiest Curse finds the band letting their imaginations run more freely than ever, even as they share some of their most emotionally heavy material to date.
The follow-up to 2018's I Don't Run --an album praised by Rolling Stone as a "gem of indie-rock-revivalism, making faux-naif surf licks and Mo Tucker drum beats seem new all over again"-- The Prettiest Curse takes its title from the sometimes-daunting experience of giving your soul to rock-and-roll. "We have this incredible job, but it's really transformed the way we live," says Cosials. "We know we're not going to stop, so we've decided to embrace it--to see this curse as something pretty." Perrote adds: "A lot of these songs are about feeling lonely, missing home, being apart from the people we love. But even though we're alone so much, we're all alone... more
The Power Of Rock
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