{"id":71138,"date":"2018-10-15T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=71138"},"modified":"2018-10-15T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:00:14","slug":"review-hands-like-houses-anon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-hands-like-houses-anon\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hands Like Houses \u2013 -Anon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-71139 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-like-houses-album.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Australia has produced some solid rock acts over the past few years, and <strong>Hands Like Houses <\/strong>are up there with the very best the country has to offer. As a move to their new label Hopeless Records marks an important change in the group\u2019s career, their fourth album <em>\u2018-Anon.\u2019<\/em>shows them diving headfirst into new ground, embracing a broader scope of genres, while perhaps watering down their older sounds in the hope that more may flower from its roots.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as fans heard the single <em>\u2018Overthinking\u2019<\/em>, it was clear that <em>\u2018-Anon.\u2019<\/em>would show an abandonment of their regular heaviness and, showing instead a favouring of pop-inspired, rhythmically-groove dependant beats, that are delicately littered with punchy riffs, and elevated by shimmering electronics. It\u2019s evident right from the album\u2019s start, with \u2018<em>Kingdom Come\u2019 <\/em>being a somewhat mellow, hip-hop\/rock blended intro that eases listeners into the record\u2019s overall feel.<\/p>\n<p>At other times, the experimentation is a little less successful. \u2018<em>Through Glass\u2019<\/em>seems to offer little, dreamily plodding along with glossy, if not forgettable melodies, while tracks like \u2018<em>No Man\u2019s Land\u2019 <\/em>and \u2018<em>Half-Hearted\u2019 <\/em>are heavier, but\u00a0fit the same mould. Not bad songs by any means, but they just fail to stand out and feel a bit \u2018radio-friendly rock\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hands Like Houses - Overthinking (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUp03PaFIkU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Where the album does pack a bit of grit is on tracks like <em>\u2018Monster\u2019<\/em>, with its new-Bring Me The Horizon vibe, and on <em>\u2018Tilt\u2019<\/em>and \u2018<em>Black\u2019<\/em>. The latter is arguably the heaviest we get on the record, with a bruising finale that finally sees vocalist Trent Woodney fully pulling his much-desired screams from his lungs.<\/p>\n<p>What <strong>Hands Like Houses <\/strong>have created on \u2018<strong>-Anon.<\/strong>\u2019 is a record that aims to push their confident hard rock forward, dipping their toes (if not their whole foot) into new elements of pop, hip-hop and electronics. While it isn\u2019t totally convincing all of the time, when it does work, the record shows a disparity of genres and a refreshing mini-reinvention of the band\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018-Anon.\u2019<\/em>by <strong>Hands Like Houses\u00a0<\/strong>is out now on\u00a0<strong>Hopeless Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hands Like Houses <\/strong>links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/handslikehouses.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handslikehouses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/handslikehouses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/handslikehouses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Dylan Tuck (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanJTuck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DylanJTuck<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands Like Houses dive headfirst into new ground on &#8216;-Anon.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[16076,5879,15698,565,246],"class_list":["post-71138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-reviews","tag-anon","tag-album-reviews","tag-dylan-tuck","tag-hands-like-houses","tag-hopeless-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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