1. Vote With Your Feet
2. Fight Your Own Way Back
3. What Gets You Off
I've been listening to some pretty good music recently for a change, the normal pile of crap that comes through my door has been staying away of late. So with that in mind, it's not that Hinterland are bad, but in comparison to the other music I've been hearing it's mild and doesn't excite me at all.
Leicester's Hinterland play heavy riff-based indie-rock. There's clever little soft interludes every now and again between the riffs that give your ears a well earned break from the repetitive chord sequences. This is probably my biggest problem with Hinterland; if they're basing the backing music around riffs and slow moving chord sequences that I'm not fond of, it probably doesn't matter how ballsy or soaring the vocals are, I'm just going to find it hard to be thrilled with the outcome.
Well played? Yes. Well produced? Certainly. Interesting ideas? No not really.
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