Leeds based outfit Hood are known for merging traditional instruments such as guitars, bass and drums with less recognised sound creators like drills and church bells.
The five tracks contained on this mini album are a good example of their ability to produce music that has an unbridled, bristling energy about it, and which often glows with a kind of guitar led iridescence.
The title track opens the set; lead vocalist Christopher Adams uses his voice as a rhythmic tool next to a chugging bass, staccato strings and wistful strums. There's a lethargy to the delivery that's addictive though you sense that any further downward and this could all turn maudlin.
'The Fact That You Failed' is an instrumental that starts like a mournful march with wistful drums and found sounds dropped in but builds into a crashing crescendo of lively guitar and increasingly dominant drums and undulating bass, ending in feedback and distortion.
'The World Touches Too Hard' wears the bands electronic influences on their sleeve, starting with some glitch-rhythms that lead into acoustic refrains and other-worldly vocal samples. Suddenly you're listening to a broken voice that soars through the densely layered sounds, and rides the acoustic riff with lines like 'life scares me to death'.
'It's Been A Long Time Since I Was Last Here' is similarly inward looking. A loping rhythm with insistent tap-tap percussion, begat of Hood's post rock days.
The tune beats beneath a slow, plodding bass and gently rhythmic strums that wash in and out - only almost four minutes in do we get the vocals, neatly offset against the horns and keyboards that streak across the soundtrack like stars in the night.
Overall, this is a confident and at times quite classy LP that will appeal to those who like an introspective listen.
