Outside Closer

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:46:38
Hood (Rock): Christopher Adams, Richard Adams .
Engineers: Christopher Adams; Choque Hosein.
Atop the modernist disco beat and lush strings of "The Negatives," Hood urges listeners to escape to the furthest place from their house until their spirit completely breaks, and then to "watch the birds fly round, just like the first time." It could well serve as the band's prerequisite for creating intense and innovative glitch-pop masterpieces.
Listening to a new Hood album tends to be like hearing the band for the first time. Like its British countryside hometown of Leeds, Hood's aesthetic is bleak, autumnal, and rustic. The group's 2005 full-length release, OUTSIDE CLOSER, blends Hood's pastoral outsider ethos with dub and hip-hop rhythms, electronics, and orchestral beds, as hinted on the band's previous album, COLD HOUSE. The gentle, pristine guitars of "End of One Train Working" and the danceable melancholia of "The Lost You" are far cries from Hood's lo-fi noise-pop roots, though the whispery, ghost-like delivery of singer Christopher Adams remains unmistakable. Stark yet dynamic, OUTSIDE CLOSER waxes and wanes like the arc of a symphony, with songs that can bring listeners deep into themselves, or to the furthest place that they know.