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Hinds have shared their latest track ‘Boom Boom Back’ featuring Beck, and announced their new album ‘VIVA HINDS’.
Serving as the album’s lead single, ‘Boom Boom Back’ the breezy track features a crisp guitar riff with the duo – Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote – and Beck asks “If you wanna fall in love in a bar tonight / Do you wanna fall in love with a broken heart? / Do you wanna ride? Ride in my Mirage? / Do you wanna be the one that feels the “Boom-Boom” back?”
The song was the first track the duo wrote for the album following a creative rut in 2020 after the release of their third album ‘The Prettiest Curse’. They went on to join forces with Beck after the duo met by chance at a film screening on a trip to LA.
Directed by Perote and Cosials, the track’s accompanying music video sees the two walking and driving all around Los Angeles in matching black outfits. The single is the second song to be released from the Spanish indie rockers’ upcoming album ‘VIVA HINDS’. It follows their previously released track ‘Coffee’.
‘VIVA HINDS’ was written by both Cosials and Perrote. The LP features the band’s first-ever Spanish language songs and collaborations from the ‘Loser’ singer as well as Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten.
It was produced by Pete Robertson (Beabadoobee), engineered by the GRAMMY-nominated Tom Roach, and mixed by GRAMMY-winning engineer Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg).
‘VIVA HINDS’ is set for release on September 6 via Lucky Number. You can pre-order / pre-save the album here.
1. ‘Hi, How Are You’
2. ‘The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You’
3. ‘Boom Boom Back (ft. Beck)’
4. ‘Stranger (ft. Grian Chatten)’
5. ‘Superstar’
6. ‘Mala Vista’
7. ‘On My Own’
8. ‘Coffee’
9. ‘En Forma’
10. ‘Bon Voyage’
Hinds are set to embark on a sold out tour later this month. They will play shows in London, Brighton, Paris, Munich, Berlin and more. Hinds will return to the UK in September, playing London’s Lafayette on the 13. Visit here to purchase tickets and check out a full list of dates below.
MAY
11 – Fango (La Monumental), Barcelona, Spain
17 – Supersonic Records, Paris, France
19 – THEATRON Pfingstfestival, Munich, Germany
21 – Monarch, Berlin, Germany
24 – Tomavistas Festival, Madrid, Spain
26 – Prince Albert, Brighton, UK (Matinee)
26 – Prince Albert, Brighton, UK (Evening)
27 – The Lower Third, London, UK
28 – The Lower Third, London, UK
SEPTEMBER
13 – Lafayette, London, UK
OCTOBER
9 – Foro Indie Rocks, Mexico City, Mexico
12 – Casbah, San Diego, CA
15 – The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
17 – Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
18 – The Crocodile, Seattle, WA
20 – High Noon, Madison, WI
21 – Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
22 – Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
23 – Lee’s Place, Toronto, ON
25 – First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
26 – Union Stage, Washington, DC
28 – Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA
29 – Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
In other news, last year Hinds announced the departure of bassist Ade Martín and drummer Amber Grimbergen, sharing in an Instagram post “You might feel as heartbroken as we felt, but luckily music has the power to heal an aching soul,” they wrote. “We’ve been through something very hurtful but we’re gonna carry on: we believe in Hinds more than anything in the world. If you’re in, we are in.”
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Olivia Rodrigo has brought out Lily Allen at her London show to duet ‘Smile’ – listen to the cover down below.
On her third night playing at London’s O2 Arena yesterday (May 17), Rodrigo announced she had a special guest for the audience, who she called “the most clever songwriter. And the coolest girl in London.
“I think the best day of my whole career was when I got to sing with her at Glastonbury,” she continued. “I absolutely adore her. Will you please give it up for Miss Lily Allen!”
To wild screams from the audience, Lily Allen stepped out on stage, where she proceeded to sing her 2006 hit ‘Smile’ – with the crowd singing along.
It’s not the first time they’ve teamed up before – as Rodrigo mentioned, she enlisted the help of Allen at Glastonbury 2022 to dedicate her song ‘Fuck You’ to the US Supreme Court (who, at the time, had just overturned Roe v Wade).
Watch Rodrigo and Allen sing ‘Smile’ below:
In a four-star review of Rodrigo’s first London show, NME said: “It’s the songs that pick at the deepest wounds that resonate with tonight’s crowd. ‘Vampire’’s stunning build from a piano ballad to jaunty clap-back to the people who should know better is one of many howl-along moments.
“The raw regret of ‘Drivers Licence’ brought her to this venue a few years ago, but now, it’s sung with both the lived experience and confidence that comes only from someone who’s moved on to even bigger and better things; there’s no denying that Rodrigo has certainly done that and will continue to do so.
NME also reviewed her sophomore album ‘GUTS’ in a five-star review, writing: “‘Guts’ doesn’t just feel transitional in a musical sense. It marks the end of Rodrigo’s teenage years, a moment that has gravity given that she recently said in a statement that she felt like she grew “10 years” between the ages of 18 and 20.
“Here, she offers blunt self-analysis while reflecting on wider cultural ideas of performance and swallowing anger in order to comply with the wants and needs of others. It works as a display of real power, range and versatility – all of which Rodrigo possesses in abundance.”
Meanwhile, Lily Allen has recently announced she’s been “trying some stuff out” with country and western music, adding: “I do love country and western music. And also I feel like with my writing, it’s quite storytelling, sort of like narrative-led music.”
However, it seems like new music from the Londoner might have to wait, claiming there was no deadline for her to finish a new album: “I’m kind of left to my own devices and I haven’t got, like, a deadline… No one has any anticipation.”
Her last album was 2018’s ‘No Shame’, which NME gave four stars: “By the end, it’s hard to deny No Shame represents the woman who made it: it’s a smart, self-aware and compellingly imperfect record with a pretty unique point of view.”
In other news, Olivia Rodrigo has said she is “so disappointed” after her Manchester Co-Op Live shows were postponed.
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