Hands I Annul Yours

Do you know the good ol' days when you got a fresh new tape, put it into your walk-man and enjoyed it while going shopping, driving to friends and whatnot? Not only have MP3s taken away something of the fascination of these analogue artefacts, also some tapes have a slightly strange conception today: a rather short length. The cake in this respect might take the Montenigrin black metal band Bogalj, whose tape had the masterful length of 3:58 (three tracks!); another example would be the Chilean band Communion, who thought that 7:39 might be more than enough for this kind of format, while 'Hands I Annul Yours' distributes ten minutes over two sides and one track on each of it. The level of inconvenience is pretty striking and to listen to the tape in a walk-man seems to require a certain amount of endurance on the side of the listener, considering how many times the side will have to be changed.

Well, this would be the first demo of the American band Hands I Annul Yours. In case you cannot find the band in the Internetz, do not be surprised, this is some real underground shite. Two times five minutes and two times no vocals; except for some samples of course. While listening to the music you do not feel that a voice is missing. Sludgy and with a good amount of flow, such is the music perceived and the art reminds on 'Billy Crystal Meth' but played slower; another reference might be 'Comparative Anatomy'. The overall style is quite minimalist and intense at the same time.

Based on a review originally written for ‘A dead spot of light (Number 15)’:
http://www.archive.org/details/ADeadSpotOfLight...Number15