Hooper Crescent / Essential Tremors 12” Orange Vinyl

Hooper Crescent / Essential Tremors 12” Orange Vinyl

Cat #: SSR025
Barcode: 3617227076892
FORMAT: LP/12” Orange Vinyl
LABEL: Spoilsport Records
RELEASE DATE: 23/2/2024

Spoilsport Records are ecstatic to announce the second album from Hooper Crescent, ‘Essential Tremors’. Following their wirey and rhythmic debut ‘Object Permanence’, and the refreshing art-pop double single ‘Best In Town/Instant Lawn’, the band take their melodic, off-kilter sound to new heights through sonic experimentation and playful songwriting on this new 11 track LP.

The record contains the same witty lyricism, punch and sense of unrelenting propulsion as their first LP, with the key example being the supercharged first single 'Late Night TV', and other tracks like 'Electric Stove' and 'Master Disruptor'.

'Carnival', 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'Staring At The Post' show their unbelievable knack at creating tension through repetition, toeing the line between order and chaos, as if the song is at some point is going to fall away into a heap but powers through into satisfying payoffs.

While never over doing it with the buzzing guitars and pulsating bass, they also allow themselves to sink into more pensive moments like 'Golden Fleece', 'Karaoke Love' and 'Ex-Cub Factor' with the use of heavy synth and drum machine that wash over you without losing any rhythmic charge.

Essential Tremors is a phenomenal art-rock piece that so tastefully balances a mix of distinct post-punk characteristics while leaning into a new path of experimental new-wave.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Dog Day Afternoon
A2 Late Night TV
A3 Karaoke Love
A4 Staring At The Post
A5 Wrong Direction
A6 Master Disruptor

B1 Carnival
B2 Electric Stove
B3 Sunset Through A Prism
B4 The Golden Fleece
B5 Ex-Cub Factor