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Review: 'Hadda Be'
'Another Life'   

-  Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '30.4.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'LNFG44'

Our Rating:
Hadda Be are a 4 piece from South London and Brighton and make lovers quarrel indie pop that has all the rivalry of Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion but with much less violence.

The band's name is taken from the Allen Ginsberg poem Hadda Be Playing On The Radio and they do their best to deliver music that would sound good on your cool indie station or Indie club.

Apathy busts out of the speakers as if it wants to banish apathy from the world as the loud quiet music helps to ram home Hadda Be's points about Apathy. Amber's vocals are somewhere between Miki Berenyi and Sarah Cracknell.

Catch It On The Fall has an insistent beat and vocals that sound like they were recorded in a cavernous space as they try to stop the fall into the abyss and find a way to improve things.

Another Life is about moving on and getting away from the trouble you are in while recalling The Flatmates or Salad. My favourite squirrel came and sat and listened to this tune he seemed very happy with what he heard.

Take it Away and I'm sure my Squirrel would take away this record, as we listen together to this very good song that has me thinking about Salem 66 but with more of a power pop indie wallflower sound.

Wait In The Dark has my squirrels dancing as it gets super intense and really pounds at us like Band Of Susan's crossed with Lush and a dash of the poppy end of Sonic Youth.

Unknown Places is a song of summer love that has gone and left that recalls summer adventures with all sorts of dynamics at play musically and lyrically as they try to find an answer or two as this builds into a tornado of sound.

This Won't End Well is a shuffle through another brief affair with intense cymbals raising the temperature as the guitars argue with each other.

So It Goes is slow and laid back enough to sound like All About Eve with carefully picked acoustic guitars resonating around the room.

Fire rages like a blaze out of control as the passions burn across the dancefloor and you just want things to ignite, this song would sound great at a proper indie club whenever we are allowed to go to such things again.

Almost Over is the penultimate track as well as being about that moment when you know it's all about to fall apart again as the music gets more intense and raging against all the things that annoy you about them, it eventually calms down, as you are ready to move on, as you know why you can't be together as it then flies into a furious ending.

Nurses Song is a gentle song of thanks for the nurses that helped to tend the wounds of there once again broken hearts or tend to the needs of people whose names they often don't know, this a nice sense of calm to it and an almost Luxembourg Signal feel to it as well as a cool disembodied sample at the end that sounds a bit like Tariq Ali.

Find out more at https://shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/hadda-be-another-life-pre-order-coming-soon?_pos=2&_sid=d6c9dc761&_ss=r????https://linktr.ee/HaddaBe https://www.facebook.com/haddabeband https://haddabe.bandcamp.com/


  author: simonovitch

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