HUNDOS

An ambitious project created with psychedelic attitude, based at the beginning of their music, to pure experimentation after a lot of musical material accumulated. The band was founded by two brothers, Sean and Kevin respectively on voice and bass / keyboards. Nothing special someone could say, but the fantastic thing is that all their material is produced and recorded in their living home!

Their sound, as they define themselves, is a "psychedelic post wave" essentially based on a drums and bass work. But there's to say that their first works must be heard better with a neutral ear, far from prejudices and sub-genre labelling. Infact is so hard to judge without influences this band, so I try however to listen to this EP, and I had a great surprise! I have always a lot of expectations for psychedelic rock, is one of my favorite genres of music, but often I have bad surprises because I find nothing that capture my interest. Now is not necessary to describe all the tracks, (I will do it when they'll release their next album), but I can say briefly that here they has achieved a certain maturity. The sound follow a musical line more defined. All is enriched by some electronic atmospheres that masterfully fills in the blanks, especially for voice that appear intricate and merged perfectly with the original psychedelic idea. The powerful bass is constant and in line with drum session.

Is possible to find several aspects that recalls to THE MARS VOLTA (this influence is more marked) , or some lonely OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ's album. The voice is not exactly like that of The Mars Volta's singer, but has got some similar effects.

An interesting project in general, and here a good work wearing the new psychedelia with many good ideas, created by three young musicians with clear ideas. A musical line with a own identity, absolutely more comprensible (fortunately!) compared to their previous music to appreciate them better.

4 Stars - The achievement of their maturity.

Here we have a wondrous project named HUNDOS to be presented, which offers a sound hard to categorize. Their albums are differing a lot, meant as an experimental and even avantgarde approach strictly, to make it clear - no need to search for an unique niche anymore, right? Featuring hallucinative as well as jumpy groovy moments at once 'The Same Design' presents something really unpredictable, still relatively accessible though compared to some other stuff I've heard from this combo. I mean - covered by a psychedelic environment as a matter of course - this is something worthily balanced according to my taste, showing melody in the same way as trickiness and weirdness.

The opening song A Maze Of Undefined Devotions immediately makes it clear that you're taken on a parforce run here. A groovy and restless fundament is offered as for the basics - Jenny Vandeman's vocals and the synths are totally spaced out - and all the instruments (guitars, bass, organ, synths, drums) are acting that virtuoso without exception - this simply is a livewire. Resembling some krautrock ambience the last track Your heart beats finally marks the masterpiece - impossible to describe - crawling, swirling, propulsive - you must hear it to get a clue somehow - just take the chance to check their bandcamp site.

Short though substantial, lead by the Hundley brothers Sean and Kevin the band has issued something extraordinarily with 'The Same Design'. Wow - not less than six guitarists are acting here in total. Featuring ethereal female vocals sometimes reminding of Kate Bush in style, this partially comes like far from the earth. An essential contribution to the progressive rock scene deriving from the experimental department, Polytoxicomane Philharmonie seem to be a valuable comparisn as for the approach. This blows my mind - 4.5 stars are well deserved so far!