The Philadelphia duo Hooky have worked with some of the top names in modern shoegaze, including They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and Winter. Today, we get a fresh chance to hear them on their own.
Monday night, with minimal notice, Hooky released World Music, a new 14-song album. These tracks conjure a woozy, dreamy sensation that reminds me of vaporwave, soft-rocking Canadians like TOPS and Men I Trust, and TAGABOW's brand of boundary-pushing shoegaze. It's the kind of record where you'll encounter slowcore guitars and uptempo breakbeats in close succession, where the heavily processed high-pitched vocals and the heavily processed high-pitched keyboard sounds sometimes blur together into one hallucinatory squeal, where you can't always tell what's a sample and what's a manipulated original recording.
The tracks are mostly lo-fi instrumentals, and they take you places. Listen to World Music below.
World Music is out now on Julia's War. Buy it here.
