Moving closer to their goal of blending beep-and-click electronica with the exotic tunefulness of space rock, Cold House is a cold and delicate examination of isolation. Hood creates unique and interesting variations on melodies while taking dirty, lo-fi beats to carry them. The guitar work is extremely minimal, drawing attention to the thin and frightened vocals that seem to haunt the songs more than take part in them. The dark and droning {&"They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Ha...   [ read more ]

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Sterling companion to the "Singles Compiled" album from those pop music superstars, Hood. Twenty rare and give-up-finding compilation and split single tracks that span the band's entire history -- from their scratchy lo-fi infancy to their genre-disregarding older age. Amen.

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Loner Folk. Flying Saucer Attack fuzz. Bark Psychosis dynamics. New Zealand songwriting iconoclasm. Collage aesthetics. Quality pop. This CD reissue of the 1994 LP will call in favors from fans of the above as well as deservedly guilt-tripping all post-rock-come-latelys. Their 1996 CD, Silent '88, continues to raise dronerock eyebrows, even after repeated lather-and-rinses. This Leeds, England duo has earned favorable reviews in Ptolemaic Terrascope, Melody Maker and (natch) Popwatch.

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