KING HANNAH – Tell Me Your Mind And I’ll Tell You Mine (2023 Repress) - 12" EP - Black Vinyl [APR 28]

Sometimes a band arrives out of nowhere, with a fully formed sound ready to fill a stadium. King Hannah are one of those bands. The Liverpool band led by the creative force of Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle have arrived with Tell Me Your Mind and I’ll Tell You Mine, an EP that is both soothing in its moods and intoxicating in its rushing soundscapes, containing a sound that is both brand new and completely mature. Their neon guitar lines and intimate torchlight vocals put the everyday on a pedestal, lifted by melodic licks that swell into dense and swirling atmospheric textures.

Tell Me Your Mind and I’ll Tell You Mine sounds like late nights and early mornings, from the beauty and closeness of acoustic guitar in opener And Then Out of Nowhere, It Rained, to the final immersive thicket of distorted guitars in Reprise (Moving Day). In between, Meal Deal is smoky backroom Americana transposed onto the precarity of finding somewhere to live; Bill Tench feels like melancholic euphoria of travelling in fast cars at night – drums flash past like lines on the asphalt with angular guitars.

Crème Brûlée is a moody fugged-out ballad for the everyday, and The Sea Has Stretch Marks conjures a whirling post-rock exploration of cinematic memories. King Hannah lean in to immersive moments in their music.