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New Video: Haiku Hands Releases an Infectious Banger

New Video: Haiku Hands Releases an Infectious Banger @haiku_hands @maddecent @grandstandhq

Critically applauded Aussie electro pop act Haiku Hands — Claire Nakazawa, Beatrice Lewis and Mie Nakazawa — embarked on their first Stateside tour back in 2019, and the tour included a number of applauded, attention-grabbing sets at SXSW, opening slots for the likes of Japanese punk act CHAI, JOVM mainstays Tame Impala and Sofi Tukker, Chicago-based emcee CupcaKke and footwork producer DJ…

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Top Albums of 2020 - #5 to #1

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5 - Deep Down Happy - Sports Team

The best new British band I’ve heard this year. The only other debut in my top 10, it’s these cheeky chappies. They take me back to peak Britpop era, early Blur, Shed Seven. Really smart, funny lyrics with a sound you don’t really hear much anymore. There’s so many tunes on the album, a real achievement for a debut.

4 - Quickies - The Magnetic Fields

Billions laughed and no one cried, the day the politicians died. Leave it to Stephen Merritt to write a song that encapsulates how most people feel right now about the people who lead the world. Quickies is another concept album from The Magnetic Fields, this time all the songs are short and snappy, the longest song coming in at 2:34 and the shortest 18 seconds. You wont feel short changed though as there’s 28 little vignettes here, which showcase TMF at their sharpest.

3 - Song Machine, Vol 1 - Gorillaz

It’s staggering that Gorillaz have been going 22 years and yet are still relevant, let alone churning out some of their best work to date. Albarn continues to work with artists that continue to innovate and make the band fresher with every album. The man is a solid gold treasure. Song machine was born in lockdown, announcing collaborations as singles with a different artist for each song. The Genius of Gorillaz is they bring together artists and genres into one concept that shouldn’t sit together, yet somehow they do (Elton John, Peter Hook, Robert Smith) sit alongside indie stalwarts (St Vincent, Joan as Police Woman, Beck) add into that the usual eclectic mix of Hip Hop MC’s and what you have is a truly astounding album. But its Albarns songwriting at the heart that makes these 17 tracks the best Gorillaz album in their 22 year history.

2 - Serpentine Prison - Matt Berninger

I haven’t seen this in many top 10 lists this year, and I get it, it’s nothing earth shattering. But there’s something about Matt Berninger’s voice that comforts me, and this is the most distilled Berninger you can get. His first solo album, he put Booker T Jones on production duties as it was originally intended to be a covers album of soul tunes, but through the process he kept writing and the soul tunes recorded were shoved to a bonus LP and what you get is a soul-tinged, accoustic solo album, which is so smooth and beautiful, its the perfect tonic for a horrible year. 

1 - The New Abnormal - The Strokes

In truth, any of the top 4 could be my number 1 this year, they’re all so strong. But I like the romanticism of The Strokes comeback the most. You could kinda tell they’ve been doing Strokes-by-the-numbers the past couple of albums and I’d all but written them off. But out comes Bad Decisions and it felt more urgent, Julian sounded like a man who had his mojo back and was enjoying being with the band again. The album cemented that, its 9 tracks and I’m glad they didnt try to round it up to 10. Its tight af. They stretch their muscles a bit in tracks like Eternal Summer and Ode to the Mets which are less obvious musically to what you’d expect but still at the core The Strokes. For a short period in the early 2000′s they were the best band in the world, The New Abnormal proves that they can be again.

Honorable Mentions

There were some critically acclaimed albums like Sault, Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift that I really enjoyed as well this year but wanted to call out some of the lesser heard albums that just missed out on the top 10.

Caribou - Suddenly - ARGH I forgot this, it should be in the top 10, but I cant squeeze it in. God this is hard. Go listen to this beautiful dance record, its amazing. Let’s call it the joint 10th best album of 2020. FML.

Haiku Hands - bonkers, hilarious, indie-dance debut. Definitely check out Manbitch, Not About You and I See You Baby. Listening again now and.... ok its the joint 10th best album of 2020. FMLFML.

Sylvan Esso - Free Love - Contains my fave track of the year in Ferris Wheel, its a great album that would have made the top 10 on a normal year.

Say Hi - Diamonds and Donuts - One of the first albums I listened to in 2020 thanks to a cracking track called Happy as a Clam. Lo-fi synth pop.

Other mentions go to Everything Everything, Car Seat Headrest, Will Butler and Jessie Ware, if I had more time and wasn’t listening to the above I may have enjoyed them more.

What a year though!

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Hi there! This is an on-going list of currently active and inactive bands, alphabetically ordered for your convenience. Feel free to let me know of any bands I may have missed so I can add them, or if a band is no longer active, or if a band has reunited!

A

Acceptance

Adventures

a great big pile of leaves

Algernon Cadwallader

Aloha

Amber Inn

American Football

Anberlin

Anchor & Braille

Angel Hair

Annabel

The Anniversary

Antioch Arrow

The Appleseed Cast

Armor For Sleep

Arrows In Her

Assfactor 4

As Tall As Lions

At The Drive In

A Will A Way

B

Back of Dave

Balance And Composure

Basement

Bayside

Beautiful Mistake

Beefeater

Before Braille

Benton Falls

The Blacktop Cadence

Blis

Boilermaker

Boys Life

Boysetsfire

Braid

Brand New

Brandtson

Brave Bird

Breaking Pangea

Breakwater

Bright Eyes

Broken Hearts Are Blue

C

Calculator

Camber

Camping in Alaska

Canyon

Cap’n Jazz

Carb On Carb

The Casket Lottery 

Caspian

Castor

Certain People I Know

Chamberlain

Charmer

Chinese Football

Christie Front Drive

Circle Takes The Square

City of Caterpillar

Citizen

Clair de Lune

Clikatat Ikatowi

Coheed And Cambria

Colossal

Compound Red

Criteria

Cross My Heart

The Crownhate Ruin

Crying

cstvt

Current

Cursive

D

Dads

Daisyhead

Daitro

Dashboard Confessional

Daylight

Dead Red Sea

Dear in the Headlights

Death Cab For Cutie

Departures

Dikembe

Down To Earth Approach

Dowsing

Drive Like Jehu

Dryjacket

E

The Early November

Elliott

Embassy

Embrace

Emo Side Project

Empire! Empire!

Endpoint

Engine Down

Eniac

Envy

Errortype: 11

Ethel Meserve

Evergreen

Eversor

Everyone Everywhere

Ex-Ignota

F

Fairweather

Falling Forward

Far

The Farewell Bend

Few and Far Between

Fire In The Radio

Fireside

Football, Etc.

The Format

Foxing

Four Hundred Years

Frail

Free Throw

Friction

The Front Bottoms

Funeral Diner

Funeral For a Friend

Further Seems Forever

G

Gameface

Garden Variety

The Get Up Kids

Giant’s Chair

Glocca Morra

The Gloria Record

Gnarwolves

Golden City

The Good Life

Grade

Graduating Life

Gratitude

Gray Matter

Grown Ups

H

Halifax Code

Harbours

Harriet The Spy

The Hated

Have Mercy

Heart Attack Man

Heroin

Hey Mercedes

Hightide Hotel

Hodera

Hometown Losers

Hoover

Hop Along

Hot Cross

Hotel Books

The Hotelier

Hot Rod Circuit

Hundred Hands

Hundred Reasons

Hurry

I

I Am the Avalanche

I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business

I Hate Myself

I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook

Imbroco

Indian Summer

Into It. Over It.

J

Jawbreaker 

The Jazz June

The Jealous Sound

Jeff Rosenstock

Jejune

Jeromes Dream - NEW LP!

Jets To Brazil

Jimmy Eat World

Joan of Arc

Joie De Vivre

Jonah Matranga

Joshua Fit for Battle

Joyce Manor

Julia

The Juliana Theory 

Julien Baker

K

Karate

Kayak Jones

Kerosene 454

Kevin Devine

Kind of Like Spitting

Knapsack

Koufax

L

La Quiete

Last Days of April

Lazycain

Lemuria

Lewis

Lifetime

Like Roses

Lincoln

Little Big League

logh

Lullaby for the Working Class

Lydia

M

Macseal

Mae

Marietta

Maritime

Matchbook Romance

Maximillian Colby

McCafferty

Merchant Ships

mewithoutYou

Microwave

Midwest Pen Pals

Mineral

Miracle Of 86

Mock Orange

Modern Baseball

Mohinder

Mom Jeans

Moneen

Moose Blood

Moss Icon

Motion City Soundtrack

The Movielife

N

Nai Harvest

Name Taken

Nation Of Ulysses

Native Nod

Navio Forge

The New Amsterdams

New End Original

Nightmare of You

No Knife

No Motiv

noneleftstanding

Northstar

O

Off Minor

Old Gray

One Last Wish

Onelinedrawing

The One Up Downstairs

On The Might of Princes

Orchid

Ordination of Aaron

Oso Oso

Owel

Owen

Owls

P

Palatka

Page 99

Paris, Texas

Pedro The Lion

Penfold

Pet Symmetry

pianos become the teeth

Piebald

Planes Mistaken for Stars

Plunger

Pohgoh

Policy of 3

Pop Unknown

Portraits of Past

The Postal Service

Prawn

The Promise Ring

PUP

Q

Quicksand

R

Race Car Riot

Raein

Rain

Rainer Maria

Ratboys

The Receiving End Of Sirens

Red Animal War

Reggie and the Full Effect

Remo Drive

Restorations

Reubens Accomplice

Rites of Spring

Rival Schools

Roadside Monument

The Rocking Horse Winner

Rocky Votolato

S

The Saddest Landscape

Saetia

Samiam

Samuel

Sarge

Saves The Day

Say Anything

seahaven

Sense Field

Settlefish

Seven Storey Mountain

Shotmaker

Silverstein

Sinai Vessel

Sinker

Six Going on Seven

Sleepytime Trio

Slow Coming Day

Snowing

Somos

Sorority Noise

Souvenirs

Sparta

Speedwell

The Spill Canvas

Split Lip

SPORT

Spy Versus Spy

Starmarket

The Starting Line

Stay Inside

Still Life

Straylight Run

Strikeforce Diablo

Sunday’s Best

Sunny Day Real Estate

Superheaven

Sweep The Leg Johnny

Swing Kids

T

Taking Back Sunday

Texas Is the Reason

Their / They’re / There

There For Tomorrow

This Town Needs Guns

Thrice

Thursday

Tigers Jaw

Time Spent Driving

Tiny Moving Parts

Title Fight

Toy Cars

Twelve Hour Turn

Two Knights

Twothirtyeight

V

The Van Pelt

The Velvet Teen

Vermont

Very Secretary

Vitreous Humor

W

Waterdown

Whereling

The White Octave

the world is a beautiful place

worlds greatest dad

Y

The Yacht Club

Yaphet Kotto

You and I

You Blew It!

You Me At Six

Z

Zookeeper

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New Video: Haiku Hands Release a Defiantly Campy and Fierce Visual for "Fashion Model Art"

New Video: Haiku Hands Release a Defiantly Campy and Fierce Visual for "Fashion Model Art" @haiku_hands @Joelistics @sofitukker @maddecent @grandstandhq

Last year saw Aussie electro pop act Haiku Hands — Claire Nakazawa, Beatrice Lewis and Mie Nakazawa — embarking on their first ever Stateside tour, which included a series of critically applauded, attention-grabbing sets at SXSW, opening slots for the likes of Japanese punk act CHAI, JOVM mainstays Tame Impala and Sofi Tukker, Chic…

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New Audio: Haiku Hands Team Up with JOVM Mainstays Sofi Tukker on a Club Banger

New Audio: Haiku Hands Team Up with JOVM Mainstays Sofi Tukker on a Club Banger @haiku_hands @Joelistics @sofitukker @maddecent @grandstandhq

Last year saw  Aussie electro pop act Haiku Hands — Claire Nakazawa, Beatrice Lewis and Mie Nakazawa — embarking on their first ever Stateside tour, which included a series of critically applauded, attention-grabbing sets at SXSW, opening slots for the likes of Japanese punk act CHAI, JOVM mainstays Tame Impala and Sofi Tukker, Chi…