Music

The Hundred in the Hands

Lauren Down | Sunday 3 October, 2010 18:36

Brooklyn based duo Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman, otherwise known as The Hundred in The Hands, released their eponymous debut album recently despite starting to brew their uniquely understated brand of shoegaze infused electro-pop just over a year ago. Having previously worked together under the guise of The Boggs, Everdell and Friedman bonded as they began playing one another French techno, post-punk and vintage hip-hop tracks in a van as they toured across America.

Writing together and recorded between home, studio, London and New York, they’ve produced a subtly eclectic collection of strikingly self-assured and sleek, brooding disco numbers. “We keep our eyes and ears open absorbing the lessons of the pop classics, folding the present into the past toward the future to create dub histories; avant-pop split between the austere and feverish,” they say. Sitting somewhere between The School of Seven Bells and Tom Tom Club, Everdell’s menacing vocals combine with a simple pop sensibility to great effect – you can experience it first hand as they head out on a UK tour at the end of the month, in support of their Warp labelmates !!!

The Hundred in the Hands play KoKo 4 November with !!!

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