Hands On Heads are a dysfunctional pop group from London.
We have a debut album available on a 10" record split with our kindred spirits The Sticks, the final few copies can be obtained through Upset The Rhythm who released this for us. We are working on our second album entitled TOUGH FUN right now.
eMUSIC made this first record essential and you can download our MP3's at here
and read the accompanying interview here
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"After a string of uber-cool releases including No Age, Barr and Death Sentence: Panda! the 'Upset The Rhythm' crew throw-out another alternative gem featuring london-based HANDS ON HEADS and brighton duo, THE STICKS. The HANDS ON HEADS side is all high-speed spazzy indie, like the yummy fur playing tig in a haunted house, whilst THE STICKS sounds like the Coachwhips arm-wrestling the Country Teasers in a cave. Limited to 500 copies on red and green dipped 10" vinyl with a hand screen heavy-card
sleeve. Do not miss this!" ROUGH TRADE
"HANDS ON HEADS seem to be interested in performing songs with a strong narrative arc, but the speed and dizziness with which they attack everything gives me a sort of motion sickness" WIRE MAGAZINE
"HANDS ON HEADS erase all that dares that no wave is crashing, by successfully rewiring your brain to receive as pop, shards of short impenetrable noise" PLAN B
"Like, if you multiplied the frets on a guitar by the beats in a bar by every e-number in a gingerbread towerblock. Featuring, um (maybe) an old school seaside/cinema organ, hyperspeed dynamics and a litter of puppies yelping from the depths of a spin cycle (it's OK! They like it!) well until they drown obvs." PLAN B
"I once went to see Martin Creed's band play in the basement of some gallery. He did a song where he just counted from one to ten. Then from ten back down to one. I reckon Martin would like Hands On Heads" VICE MAGAZINE
"The longest Hands on Heads track here is a whopping two and a half minutes, yet even within these fragmentary vignettes are contained both excellent pop songs and definite and defined structure and ideas, conveyed through chattering instruments and manic organ. Hands on Heads are yet another band who'd have a way bigger profile in times more amenable to experimentation than these." PLAYLOUDER
There's also a Playlouder live review here and a Drowned in Sound review here.
NO!!! WE HAVE SOLD OUT OF OUR SPRAY-PAINTED SHIRTS BUT WE ARE BRANCHING OUT TO UMBRELLAS AND PERSONALISED COMBS SOON, PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DETAILS x
HOH NEWS! WE HAVE NEW TRACK 'WITCHES & LIGHTNING' INCLUDED ON A BRILLIANT NEW XMAS COMPILATION COURTESY OF EXTRAORDINARY LABEL MISTLETONE, YOU CAN BUY AA COPY BY CLICKING THE RECORD SLEEVE ABOVE, THE STICKS, JOHN MAUS AND HIGH PLACES ALSO APPEAR IN A TOTAL UPSET THE RHYTHM PARTY FESTIVAL STYLE. WE LOVE MISTLETONE CHECK THEM OUT HERE:
THE SATSUNG COLLECTIVE and PASSING CLOUDS present U-CEF and the ARAB LEAGUE (/www.myspace.com/ucef) (www.myspace.com/arableaguemusic) and RAMALLAH UNDERGROUND, from Ramallah, West Bank. This talented musical collective, founded by artists Boikutt. Stormtrap and Aswatt, are credited as some of the foudners of Palestinian hip-hop. The project was born from the desire to give voice to a generation of Palestinians and Arabs, in a situation of great economic, artistic, and political difficulty. Their music combines hip-hop, trip-hop and downtempo with traditional Middle-Eastern music, with a commitment to their local culture and an awareness of the imposing presence of Palestine in their lives. Watch their video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=86OVicIQV9Y) live! With DJs SHUBA GIRI and TEPP UENO.
Land Of Ill Earthquakes Heartbreak Bombardier cassette tape
This Southern California group of 4 girls and 3 guys return with 8
brilliantly catchy indie pop songs using a wide array of instruments
and sweet female vocal harmonies. Beautiful, complex and immediately
familiar. Limited to 50 high bias cassettes with full-color labels and
art designed by Megan Mock of Megamoog.
NEW ALBUM RELEASED The Meifumado is celebrating 5 years of existence with the release of the compilation "5 Anos 13 Merdas". Here we present new artists that thicken the Meifumado batch particularly Selfish Cunt, Sam Amant, Paco Hunter and MC Jihad, and show you tunes that have never been published by other bands who already know what the house spends such as The Zany Dislexic Band, PZ, Pplectro , Preto, Type, and Abztraqt Sir Q. To download or buy the record, visit www.meifumado.org.
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