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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