L.A.-based trio Hundred Waters deal in atmosphere and emotion, with experimental beats buttressing pop hooks and Nicole Miglis’s breathy, multitracked vocals. Their last album, 2014’s The Moon Rang Like a Bell, played up the group’s expert balance of the electronic and the organic, and “Blanket Me,” the lead single from the new Communicating, does the same, blossoming from a spare piano ballad into an ethereal cloud of digital noises, drums, keyboards and the titular plea
Over 12,000 creepy-crawlies do their creepy-crawliest all over Hundred Waters Nicole Miglis in this video for “Fingers” so consider this your warning… or invitation.
Like the insects in the Allie Avital-directed video, “Fingers” is built on hesitation and tension, as producer Trayer Tryon’s low-end piano keys and muddled synths glide over Zach Tetreault’s crisp drumming. “Some days I feel like I see you a little too much / But on the days I don’t see you / Are the days don’t see anything at all,” sings Miglis with yearning, but somehow not screaming as 12,000 insects scuttle across her body.
The trio’s new album, which now bears the name Communicating, is slowly turning out to be one that blurs the edges of smart electronic production and live instrumentation.
Communicating comes out September. 14th via Owlsa Records.
The Florida band Hundred Waters debuted the first song from their third record which they are currently finishing up as a trio. ‘Particle’ is typical of the band to meld electronic textures with more earthly tones. They say it’s “a deeply personal song that reflects a period of profound change within the band wherein the relationships of the members have shifted into unfamiliar territory, reflected in the song’s rapidly morphing textures.
This Gainesville, Fla., band sits precisely at the intersection of what the genre police would call “indie rock” and “electronica.” As Hundred Waters has gained fame since the release of its first album two years ago, the quartet’s tour pairings have reflected its ability to win equal appreciation from music-hungry festival goers of different tastes. Two years ago, they were out with Skrillex, and they just wrapped a fall tour with Interpol. Though the record in no way sounds distinctly Southern, Hundred Waters do show their Central Florida roots a bit on the first cut of “The Moon Rang Like a Bell”: “Show Me Love.” You hear the multi-tracked voice of lead vocalist Nicole Miglis singing harmony with herself and delivering lines like “Don’t let me show cruelty, though I may make mistakes / Don’t let me show ugliness, though I know I can hate.” The whole thing rings like a hymn and serves as a fine beginning to a hypnotic electronic record.
Hundred Waters are wrapping up their tour with singer songwriter Mitski playing shows in their former Florida home this weekend the band have recently relocated to Los Angeles but are finishing in Austin for a couple appearances at SXSW,
The Florida-based quartet ready a remix album of “The Moon Rang Like a Bell”. Hundred Waters will follow-up last year’s well-received release with an album of remixes by Plaid, Dirty Beaches, Huxley, Illangelo, Brandt Bauer Frick, Shigeto and Kodak to Graph.
“The Moon Rang Like A Bell (Remixed)” is due out on February 16th via Skrillex’s OWSLA imprint. Have a listen Plaid’s remix of ‘Out Alee’ and compare it to the original.
and the remix of Cavity by Shigeto
My friend Alex and I made a video for our track “Show Me Love” The band Hundred Waters are a curious case. Their music is so pretty and insular and new-agey that you almost want to think about it in folk-music terms, but they’ve also got the playful rhythmic sensibility of a ’90s IDM producer. The group is about to release a remix version of their 2014 album “The Moon Rang Like A Bell”, with its chiming lilt and making an already-beautiful album sound even prettier.
the HUNDRED WATERS album
Hundred Waters are from Los Angeles, amazing bewitching Vocals this is pretty stunning
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