New Cut Off Your Hands song and video. It feels like forever ago since New Zealand’s best post-punk-indie romantics, Cut Off Your Hands delivered You And I into our lives. Apparently it’s only been two years. Still, that doesn’t dull my excitement for their follow-up LP, Hollow. A month ago, I posted the first single, You Should Do Better. And hot on its heals comes Hollowed Out: “A glistening track inspired by the ethereal post-punk of Echo & the Bunnymen, with acoustic guitar strums and crystalline lead riffs winding around each other, bolstering frontman Nick Johnston’s reverb-soaked vocals about a man coming undone.” “It’s about an anxious feeling of being cut down, or gutted, of experiencing immense failure, and how that might pull you to the ground,” Johnston told SPIN in an exclusive interview. Listen for yourself below:   At the same time, the band teamed with They Ltd to create a mystical music video for Fooling No One. You’d be forgiven for mistaking the hectic and seemingly random style of direction as similar to CANADA - the duo behind Battles - Ice Cream and El Guincho’s - Bombay. But watch closer as the quickly cut scenes link together visually and metaphorically. From seemingly gravity-defying cuppas to powerful magic crystal the clip will keep you asking howdaydodat? from start to finish. Clever and mesmerising stuff.

New Cut Off Your Hands song and video.

It feels like forever ago since New Zealand’s best post-punk-indie romantics, Cut Off Your Hands delivered You And I into our lives. Apparently it’s only been two years. Still, that doesn’t dull my excitement for their follow-up LP, Hollow.

A month ago, I posted the first single, You Should Do Better. And hot on its heals comes Hollowed Out:

“A glistening track inspired by the ethereal post-punk of Echo & the Bunnymen, with acoustic guitar strums and crystalline lead riffs winding around each other, bolstering frontman Nick Johnston’s reverb-soaked vocals about a man coming undone.”

“It’s about an anxious feeling of being cut down, or gutted, of experiencing immense failure, and how that might pull you to the ground,” Johnston told SPIN in an exclusive interview. Listen for yourself below:

 

At the same time, the band teamed with They Ltd to create a mystical music video for Fooling No One. You’d be forgiven for mistaking the hectic and seemingly random style of direction as similar to CANADA - the duo behind Battles - Ice Cream and El Guincho’s - Bombay.

But watch closer as the quickly cut scenes link together visually and metaphorically. From seemingly gravity-defying cuppas to powerful magic crystal the clip will keep you asking howdaydodat? from start to finish. Clever and mesmerising stuff.

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