Bad pun withstanding, Cut Off Your Hands are pretty damned good. Hailing from New Zealand with A harder, garage rock, thrash around like idiots in front of the stage like sound, they’re good enough to keep even a mostly “I won’t listen unless they have at least 1 synth” guy like me happy.
They just dropped their first EP recently; entitled “Shaky Hands EP” -in reference to their original name, which happened to be close enough to another band’s name that they were forced to change it; that’s your history lesson for the day- its 6 tracks of pounding drums and guitar-fueled intensity mixed with some staccato melodies to hold your ear throughout the whole EP. That does it for me… plus I like their vocalist’s voice!
Cut Off Your Hands - “Expectations”
Cut Off Your Hands - “You And I”
Both of those are on their more rock side of things, but I’m a big fan of “Let Go” as well
You can pick up the EP directly from I Am Sound or via iTunes. Be sure to check out their MySpace to peep 2 more tracks not on the EP.
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If you think that EP’s good, wait till be hear their new one called Blue on Blue. It must be only available in New Zealand because all you American cats keep talking about their first EP.
You should take a look at the Video’s on youtube, that’s my only suggestion for you to hear their actual new stuff.
I’ve had the tracks I posted since they were still called Shaky Hands, but as far as I know that EP was just released over here! Too much good music coming from over that way these days.
Thanks for the heads-up about the other tracks.. wasn’t sure if they were new or old = )
No problem. I post a bit of local New Zealand music on my blog Einstein, disguised as Robin hood. You might like to take a look.