When
I first began listening to “Bloom” by Hiders, I couldn’t help but hear some of
my typical comparisons come out, as I’ve been hearing a lot of them lately from
different artists. I’m talking about
that singer/songwriter almost folk vibe that I compare with the likes of Ben
Kweller, “Walking On a Wire” era Get Up Kids and of course EFS. However, in listening to this over and over
is when you begin to find the little layers underneath that make Hiders so
great.
The
music borders on twee, but mostly only because everything I put in this genre
tends to have some hints of it. It isn’t
quite pop rock, but one interesting artist that does come out in comparison
(and somehow doesn’t seem to enough these days) is Casper and the Cookies, whom
I have enjoyed for something like ten years now.
Even
though the first song on Side B has reminders for me of a guitar line out of
Sixpence None the Richer, I am still hesitant to think of this as being
something that could be on the radio, but there really isn’t a good focal point
to compare this with exactly either. There is a small instrumental interlude as
well, which I’ve always enjoyed in between songs and only in nature recalls
Kimya Dawson for me.
Hiders
isn’t the type of artist that is all over the place. The music tends to stay within the same
general guidelines of genres. Yet, it
isn’t something that can be so easily pinned down either, as for me to assign
it a direct Bandcamp tag or similar artist.
Sometimes you just have to know things are good and especially so on
cassette.
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