Tom Tom Club

I first heard The Hundred in the Hands on a Warp Records sampler a year or so ago and was a little bemused. The track being showcased, whilst pretty good, was more reminiscent of Silent Alarm-era Bloc Party with its spiky guitars than the inventive electronica Warp is famous for. More recent tracks that have appeared on the This Desert EP have displayed more of the Warp electronic trademarks however, particularly Tom Tom, which has just earned itself a video. The song mainly comprises some cool riddims, plus a twinkly keyboard line and the occasional stab of guitar. The vocals, courtesy of Eleanore Everdell, are sweet like the lyrics, but fairly unremarkable. The video is also a pretty standard affair, comprising those two great promo staples, a large cavernous space (usually a warehouse or abandoned car park) and abstract projections. The band members also look like they just stepped out of an American Apparel catalogue, but then again, that's not alway a bad thing (amiright??)



The Hundred in the Hands may be just another Brooklyn band, and they have no real distinctions, but there's something about them that i find endearing, perhaps just the fact that they write good tunes. Even if they at first appear out of place on the Warp roster, there's enough about them to justify their place on it.

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