Brighton/London four piece Hella Better Dancer have been making dreamy, lo-fi guitar pop in their bedrooms for a few years. “Sleeptalking” sounds like a band ready to flock the nest. Perhaps it’s the prickly guitar solo and half-shouted harmonies that’s allowed the band to take on a more immediate personality and weighty reverb and shaded vocals Maybe it’s the band’s adoption of Norwegian songstress Farao last year as their drummer .Whatever the reason, “Sleeptalking” is a sure-fire step in the right direction. It doesn’t shed the band’s hallmark spacious sound nor is it a simple repetition of their previous efforts.
The self-produced/recorded single is out now.Record Label Beautiful Strange will release “Sleeptalking” on limited 7″ vinyl on 11 November.
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