Hinds - “Burn"

SXSW 2024 - OEB Score: 7; Popularity Index: 5

Pairs Well With…Best Coast, Vivian Girls, Alvvays

It’s been six years since Spanish band Hinds has visited SXSW, a gap that accounts for their latest record The Prettiest Curse, released in 2020. Since then, the quartet has shrunk to a duo (with a couple touring musicians to replicate their classic rock-and-roll lineup), and imaginably this year’s appearance in Austin will be accompanied by new music that could make up LP number four. Garage pop atmosphere delivered with breezy ease, Hinds find a fruitful space to craft songs that are equally grimy and catchy. The Prettiest Curse is the best example of this from their decade-long catalog, a collection that compliments rhythmic alt-rock with sweet dreaminess, all alongside bouncy pop melodies. (Kevin McStravick)  

2016 Review: Breezy, lo fi vibes permeate the buzzy early singles of Spanish indie rock-rock band Hinds (f/k/a Deers), as if a garage was built right on the beach.  Hinds’ combination of hook-laden songwriting and bright rawness is a unique update on 50s and 60s California pop with a twist of UK Invasion psychedelia is immediately heady, but there’s a youthful joy that shakes the body best displayed on tracks like “Davey Crockett” and breakout demo “Bamboo”.