The Hanging Stars, By The Sea, Hollow Hand

After many sold out shows and an album ‘Over the Silvery Lake’ with the finest reviews, The Hanging Stars will bring their 'cosmicious' psych-folk to the Lexington on the 23rd of November.
Support from By The Sea plus Hollow Hand.

Tickets are available on We Got Tickets here: www.wegottickets.com/event/371733

The Hanging Stars
The Hanging Stars were an epiphany visited upon the rain soaked air of England’s green and pleasant land, becoming whole, tangible and real in the Californian desert.

There they formed there mix of lush harmonies, cosmic americana and tuneful folk creating something halfway between the Mississippi and the Mersey, the desert’s beating sun and the dark skies of London. Their sound is something timeless and yet somehow new, simultaneously nostalgic and prophetic.
They vary in number, yet wherever they go they carry the rain and the sand with them.

“a hazy, desert-dream of a song, nicely sharpened with steely-eyed guitars, Mersey-laced harmonies and just a whiff of the Gun Club.” – Guardian

“Swampy psychedelia that recalls the Medway Delta as much as the Mississippi, the band’s new single neatly conjoins these influences.” – Clash

“You might recognise members of the See See and Coastguards within the ranks of this group but Hanging Stars are trippier that their parent bands – or more “cosmicious”, as they describe themselves on Facebook. A brilliant debut for fans of melted country and acid psych.” – Sounds XP

soundcloud.com/thehangingstars

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By The Sea

By The Sea are a wirral-based indie rock band. after a short run of sold-out 7" singles, the band released their debut LP on november 12th via dell'orso records (CD), great pop supplement (LP) and digitally through AWAL distribution.

The album was recorded and produced with close friend Bill Ryder-Jones (Domino Records) in various bedrooms, garages and churches. the album hopes to recall the sound and culture of the seminal 1980s indie bands that helped inspire it.

"Beautifully bruised...with lashings of heartache thrown in – 8/10" - Matt Wilkinson, NME Radar

"A swoonsomely addictive wash of glistening synths, impassive sighs and effervescent jangles" - The Line Of Best Fit

“Solidly crafted melodic pop” - Uncut

“Chiming guitars & blessed out moods... imaginative & well-constructed” – Q

"By The Sea’s debut wraps itself warmly around ears; the melodies and joyful playing help create windswept hymns which soak blissfully into your pores. Tinged with melancholy but flushed with gorgeous hope, this is an album of sunshine and rain". - Fake DIY

"By The Sea make music that can't contain itself, that is so bursting with joy it sounds like it is tripping over itself in its desire to get out of the speakers.” - Fred Perry

soundcloud.com/by-the-sea/youre-the-only-one

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Hollow Hand

Hollow Hand is the psych-folk project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, based in the English countryside.
The music is recorded at ‘Cosmic Ocean’, the band’s rehearsal space.

After gathering the talents and limited equipment of 4 like-minded friends, the band were able to record their first album; ‘Ancestral Lands’ which was released on limited cassette via US label Ongakubaka Records in January 2016.

The album is influenced by electric folk records of the late 60s/early 70s (Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Iain Matthews, Gene Clark).

Ancestral Lands, is the consummate time-travel companion. Anyone game for getting deliciously lost in a strange landscape will reel with the twists and turns of the properly coherent body of songs possessing that rare quality: longterm listenability.
- Gold Flake Paint

...these tunes will appeal to fans of Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective. Chariot is weird, wonderful and unsettling in that waking-from-a -dream-you-can’t-quite-remember kind of way.
- Repeat Button

hollowhand.bandcamp.com