Jon Hood Shares Loud and Clear
Imagine a world where bands like Dry Cleaning and Dummy intermingled. This is a land that fuses explorative electronics with the breakdown of modern post-punk, and that is the land where you’ll find Switzerland’s Jon Hood. There are elements of the vocals that feel like faint whispers, all of it kind of crafted as if it was a sample pushing from beneath the bubbling pulse of the rhythm section; there are certain moments that overlap too, reminiscent of the glorious days of Broadcast and Life Without Buildings. There’s just so many things to adore about this track, but most of all, it has me salivating at what’s in store when they drop Pieces of Reality!

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I’m a definite sucker for a spiky guitar line, so when I pressed play on this new tune from the latest Vocabularies, I instantly knew I was going to be playing it on repeat. Those notes seem to be sort of climbing up the wall, like a spider operating with some sort of deliberate madness; it puts up a certain tension in the track, letting songwriter Ryan Young crawl all over those jagged notes. Young’s vocal delivery is calmed and deliberate, striking the listener in a fashion that almost feels like a post-punk infomercial commenting on how “they win/we lose.” If sharp guitar notes are your thing, then you’ll want to search the rest of For the Hundredth Time.
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