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EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Vampire Hands - No Fun

Posted Mar 4, 2008 3:01 PM by Daniel Arnold

Tags: kraut rock, glam, indie

I gotta tip off my old buddy Christen that I oughta look into the band called Vampire Hands, so I did. But before I did I said in my head, "Aw hell, how many minutes until I read about Vampire Bear and Panda Hands on pitchforkmedia.com." But that's just a little aside to let you know that you and I are more or less on the same level.

The music of Vampire Hands is kind of like the music of Can. Sparse power kraut with spazzo drums all over the place (approaching Animal Collective) that manages to be totally mental by being totally mellow. Paranoid. On top of the Can are high-pitched glammy vocals, well nervous, that are like... you know that main bad guy in The Warriors? Kinda sounds like that guy only not annoying.

They're trying hard to be German but Vampire Hands are from Minnesota (incidentally, a town loaded with Germans). And not that we're about to judge a book by its cover, but they look like some solid hesh bros. Good old boys. Probably super nice people. Look for them in Austin next weekend and buy them a bratwurst. Thanks for telling me about Vampire Hands, Christen. And now, Vampire Hands:

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