Hooray For Humans

Emerging out of Cork City late last year as a come together of musicians who previously performed with other bands from the city, Hooray For Humans have had a lot of people talking about them of late as one of the best new bands on the Irish music scene, and featured on Hot Press magazine recently amongst others written about here on Frequency-Ireland last year as "Ones to Watch" for 2007. So what do you get with Hooray For Humans? Indie fun and punk-pop attitude.

While the demo material they’ve had online hadn’t quite captured my imagination, catching them live this weekend impressed considerably more, where they played support to Crayonsmith at Baker’s Underground in Limerick. Actually, I was quite taken aback by how good they were. This is a band bubbling over with fun attitude; quite casual, yet with an assured indie-rock confidence of knowing what they’re doing is quite cool. They slot in somewhere between a less minimalist Blood Red Shoes and a semi-modernised B52s, although their influences lie elsewhere in Robocop Kraus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Postal Service, Sonic Youth, Pavement, MBV and so on. Recently signed up to Out On A Limb Records, they are currently writing material for their debut album, which is targeted for release towards the end of this year. In the meanwhile, do yourself a huge favour and catch Hooray For Humans live if you have not done so already.

Related Links:

http://www.myspace.com/hoorayforhumansband

http://www.outonalimbrecords.com