Live Video: Hinds

Live Video
01/04/2016
Jim Beckmann
photo by Melissa Wax (view set)

There's a deceptive appeal to Hinds. At first listen to their buoyant jangle pop, and even at first glance at their fresh faces, the young Madrid garage rockers might be taken less seriously than they deserve. No doubt, they perform to have fun, but it's exactly their carefree attitude, slightly off-kilter harmonies, imperfect pronunciations, frequent signature changes, normcore attire and incurable grins that upend expectations and remind listeners where great music comes from: from the hind... I mean, the heart. No matter how you feel or think about music, at least when you watch Hinds' session in the KEXP live room, "You won't say you're bored anymore":

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