Vampire Hands - 2 E.P.S (2008) Vinyl

Vinyl pressing compiling Vampire Hands' first two self-released CDRs: At Wizard Island Too Punk To Fuck and Cuz It's A Beach Funeral. Originally released to coincide with Vampire Hands' Spring 2009 23-date tour with Wavves. Minneapolis' Vampire Hands are a rather difficult-to-pigeonhole lot, one with so many disparately abundant ideas bubbling out of their collective skulls that they barely keep pace with them. Citing influences as diverse as Exuma, Can, Neil Young and Simply Saucer, Vampire Hands' sound might (lazily) be described as Marc Bolan meets Mayo Thompson in Neil Haggerty's cannabistro. Fuzzy, distorted guitars meet tribal, pulsating rhythms. An eerily affecting falsetto melds with a lower, drier voice to create delightfully off-kilter harmonies. Die-cut, silkscreened jackets designed and printed by Burlesque of North America. 350 copies, $20 postpaid in U.S.