★★★★★
Cool your boots, 2016, I'm still working through the impossible amount of tuneage your predecessor tried compressing into my earholes. Is there a way we can start the year around, say, March? Just kick back a bit and write January and February off as a hangover? No, I thought not, you heartless swine.
Things Madrid quartet Hinds gives zero fucks about include (a) wearing their hearts on their sleeves, (b) displaying their goofy demeanour, and (c) learning to play their instruments properly...
- www.beat.com.au
2016-01-19
★★★★★
In the famous words of Kanye West, Hinds "cook up summer in the winter" on their first full-length release, . The Spanish garage rockers roll out an album of fuzzy, beer-soaked jams chock full of proto-punk goodness. Reverb-laden guitars fill the record, drenching Hinds pop riffs in a spooky, surf rock texture...
- exclaim.ca
2016-01-12
★★★★★
It's been a good 18 months since Madrid-based four-piece Hinds (or a two-piece named Deers as they were in June 2014) dropped a bubbly ramshackle of an EP imaginatively titled 'Demo', where their insatiably catchy, sun-drenched surf was a smile that you simply had to return. Since then, they've dropped a handful of singles, toured extensively and even dropped a Greatest Hits EP, delectably titled 'The Very Best of Hinds So Far'...
- www.noripcord.com
2016-01-13
★★★★★
hat the debut album from all-female Spanish quartet - known as Deers until a year ago - might lack in sophistication is more than made up for with charm. Their modus operandi is shambling, unhurried garage rock projected through a lo-fi filter and topped with ragged harmonising. In the age of Auto-Tune, there's a freshness to this ramshackle approach, even as the likes of and threaten to collapse in on themselves...
- www.theguardian.com
2016-01-10
★★★★★
This Madrid-based band's debut full-length is an impressive outing of ramshackle garage-pop with a lo-fi sound featuring jangly guitars, bouncy rhythms, dual lead vocals and sweet pop melodies that hearken back to '60s girl groups and '50s rock 'n' roll. 1/8/2016
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- kexp.org
2016-01-09
★★★★★
f course, anyone can be ramshackle, the word most often attributed to this Madrid four-piece. Anyone can pay scant attention to tuning their guitar, strum it at the slacker rhythm of their choosing and allow anyone in their band to have a bash at vocals, seemingly as and when they fancy it. But 99% of the time, they will be utterly unlistenable. Hinds are great because of two crucial factors...
- www.theguardian.com
2016-01-08
★★★★★
You've probably heard Hinds' brand of fuzzy garage pop a thousand times before. The Madrid-dwelling quartet's ramshackle, lush melodies hark back to historic indie merchants such as The Shop Assistants and The Sonics, while generating a shrill ambiance associated with more modern tykes like Wavves or Psychedelic Horseshit. Whatever they are and whoever they sound like, Hinds really are nothing new. Whether this lack of originality actually matters is debatable...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2016-01-06
★★★★★
Madrid's Hinds follow a philosophy as simple as their charmingly sparse garage rock: . In English, it means "our shit, our rules," and it wasn't hard to see that the foursome are quite serious about adhering to it on stage. Performing for the very first time in Toronto, they were commanding their fans to join in and embrace the band's fizzy attitude. "Are you ready to dance a little bit?" guitarist/vocalist Carlotta Cosials asked before they launched into "Trippy Gum...
- exclaim.ca
2015-10-26
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