Garage Band Hinds release debut album

Contributing Writer/Emily Afre

On January 8, 2016, Madrid based female garage pop band, Hinds, released their highly anticipated debut LP, “Leave Me Alone” through British label, Lucky Number Music.

Hinds serves sunny and surf-tinged, girl gang tunes with their first record, also touching base with the many sides of love. The lyrics, “You’re on my mind” appears throughout several songs on the album, acknowledging what it is like to be missing that one person, wishing things were how they used to be.

“Don’t let her waste your smile/Don’t let her curse your eyes,” is sung in the track, “Warts”– a warning to a lost love, advising that this new girl is not all she seems to be.

In the lyrics: “She’s becoming like an angel/ She’s going to beat you bad” they further emphasize how undeserving it is to live in false happiness.

Phrases like “I need you by my side” and “You treat me like a friend” are expressed in the song “Easy” where ending a relationship, is always easier for one person.

Having “Easy” and “Warts” follow each other made these two cuts the highlight of the album. Consecutively, the themes of these songs lead into each other, in a story-like fashion.

Left as friends and heartbroken (“Easy,”) Cosials and Perrote, shared vocalists and guitarists, sing about how they feel their old love deserves to be with someone who is true (“Warts.”)

“Leave Me Alone” also includes previously released singles “Bamboo,” “Castigadas En El Granero,” “Chili Town,” “Garden” and “San Diego.”

Cosials and Perrote’s layered harmonies in tandem with fuzzy riffs and simple basslines are effective, for the most part. “Leave Me Alone” is cute and fun, but lacks a certain distinction they can really call their own.

Perhaps, if some tracks were sung in Spanish, it would add flare and depth to cuts that are otherwise, not as memorable.

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Image courtesy of Lucky Number Music