The Idle Hands return with a brand new EP.
Life Is Beautiful is out March 1st via
The Pretty Kids Collective!
If you've caught The Idle Hands live, you know they're a band that will stand and deliver. With charm, fashion and sexuality, singer Ciaran Daly fronts the stage while guitars swirl, the rhythm takes hold and the room is transformed into a booze-soaked indie disco. The band was formed when brothers Ciaran and Criostoir Daly relocated from Ireland to Minneapolis and were joined by Eileen Omizo-Whittenberg on keys, Al Wires on guitar and Nicco Franz Huber on drums. Their 2009 outing, The Hearts We Broke On Our Way To The Show, was a lively whirlwind of an album that exposed the band to new fans in the across the US and UK. With Daly's wry sense of humor and disdain echoing through his quivering vocal melodies backed with densely packed guitars and keyboard-laden hooks, the band drew favorable comparisons to the likes of the Psychedlic Furs and Pulp.
Following up, The Idle Hands return with a brand new EP, Life Is Beautiful. The band unites the sounds of Brit-pop, new romantic keyboards, and David Bowie-esque glam and shoots it through with David Lynch debauchery and velvet sleaze. "Socialite Death Squad" kicks off with a buzzy bassline that drives the song straight to the dance floor with its tongue-in-cheek chorus. "Dead Letter" seethes with a creepingly dark vocal performance from Ciaran with menacing lines like "stalking feels like devotion, but you can't say why" set atop a propulsive, squalling wall of sound. While "Uptown Burning" cynically conjures visions of reckless, scenester youth existence at the edges of America. "Just Stop" and "Fine" round out just over twenty minutes of the band's most appealing music yet.
Catch The Idle Hands at this year's SXSW in March and expect their follow up LP and full North American tour this summer! Life Is Beautiful is out March 1st, 2011 via The Pretty Kids Collective.
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