It’s a double whammy. The Spanish Hinds have announced their second studio album I Don’t Run and share the first album track ‘New For You’.
The girls – Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrotte, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – say the new album shows a bigger, better, faster, funnier, more dexterous Hinds. Co-produced by the band and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor), and engineered by Shawn Everett (The War On Drugs, John Legend), I Don’t Run is the product of a band fighting for their place, a band unwilling to rely upon their successes, a band who have just begun to prove themselves, and a band who plays hard but works even harder.
Hinds’ breakout debut album Leave Me Alone may have been an album of party anthems drenched in metaphors, but with I Don’t Run, it’s time to cut right to the chase. Some might expect them to write songs about being happy, young and carefree – “but we’re not satisfied with that,” explains guitarist and co-vocalist Ana Perrote. “On this album the struggles are clear. We want to be brave.”
To celebrate the announce, Hinds also share I Don’t Run’s first single, ‘New For You’, with a music video (below) that sees the band dominate the football field.
Beneath the breezy melodies lies a damning self-criticism; a side to Hinds we haven’t seen. They may play as dangerously as any male DIY act, but their reactions to sudden notoriety are imbued with sensitivity; a result perhaps of their inherent femininity, as opposed to a need to push their egos.
Of their self-directed music video, Cosials says: “I thought it cannot be more Spanish [football] and that it cannot be more a male sport, and that it is good to present a different gender-reality without even trying hard. I think sports are such a good metaphor with life, with goals, passion and suffer.”
After everything they’ve overcome, one might think a band like Hinds would have second album syndrome, but think again. Hinds are chomping at the bit and with defiant confidence.
Find the track listing and European tour dates below.
Photo Credit: Alberto Van Stokkum
Track listing:
1. The Club
2. Soberland
3. Linda
4. New For You
5. Echoing My Name
6. Tester
7. Finally Floating
8. I Feel Cold But I Feel More
9. To The Morning Light
10. Rookie
11. Ma Nuit
Live dates:
15/04 Glasgow, Scotland SWG3
17/04 Manchester, England Gorilla
18/04 Bristol, England The Fleece
19/04 London, England Electric Brixton
20/04 Brighton, England Concorde 2
23/04 Paris, France Le Point Ephemere
24/04 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique
25/04 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bitterzoet
26/04 Hamburg, Germany Molotow
27/04 Berlin, Germany Bi Nuu
29/04 Zurich, Switzerland Mascotte
