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Inhabiting the centre of Brooklyn quartet Bear Hands is a textbook example of contrasting personalities uniting to craft something more than the sum of their parts. Vocalist/guitarist Dylan Rau, the group’s self-confessed musical Luddite (“I can’t read music but that’s ok because I’m more of an ideas man,”) peppers his supersonic chatter with an infectious collection of witticisms. By contrast his songwriting partner, guitarist Ted Feldman, who grew up playing the cello, carefully selects his answers and admits to being “a bit of a control freak.” Together, though, these contradictory characters have combined their strengths to deliver their upcoming major label album debut Distraction – a collection in which their love of pop hooks is filtered cohesively through an eclectic collection of genre elements ranging from psychedelic to punk. Giants is perhaps the track that best encapsulates everything that makes Bear Hands special, as it flows from a manic verse full of hollered stream-of-consciousness lyrics into an infectious chorus, in which the universal emotion of “I’m loving you more” is set to a cascading riff.
