Born from a beer soaked balcony in Brisbane, indie rock four piece Hound. infuse their love for 80s post punk and 90s alt rock so effortlessly it’s almost impossible to believe they only released their first demo in 2013.

Combining their influences from bands such as The Cure, Sonic Youth and Fugazi with the Aussie garage rock sound, their new single ‘God Is Calling’ is the most exciting track we’ve heard from the guys yet. In 2014 the band released a number of attention grabbing singles and toured with local and international legends in including  DZ Deathrays, The Love Junkies and Drunk Mums, as well as performing at the Brisbane leg of The Blurst Of Times Festival.

2015 is truly shaping up to be an even bigger year with multiple tours, supports with The Coathangers and ScotDrakula and now the release of their impressive, blistering debut album Dying in the Sun out independently this Friday April 17th. To celebrate its release, the band are giving Tone Deaf readers the opportunity to hear the record early, accompanied by a track by track written by the guys. Check it out below, and visit the band’s Facebook page for more info.

WASTE THE DAY

A sad song that is actually a little uplifting in its own hazy way. So out of all the recorded numbers it was bizarrely a totally representative and strong opener. A pure Chris Cox number, it’s been a band favourite ever since it arrived and a slight respite in our usually hot ’n’ heavy sets.

GAMEKEEPER

A bit of a riff, a bit of a groove and a spot of the ol’ double vocal magic. Manic Street Preachers attempt Fugazi? Why the hell not, that’s a great idea. More stomp than strut, she’s still got some moves. So watch out.

SOMETHING ELSE

The sound of us having our cake and eating it without mercy, this is a terrifically fun and upbeat track about unspeakable misery. It’s got more hooks than a BCF and a guitar solo that has forgotten which song it is actually in. Ripper as ripper does.

GOD IS CALLING

The flagship song which has recently put in an application for the position of your new favourite song. Whether or not she gets the job I reckon you’ll still wish her well. A rare thing in this rock game. Also it’s got an extremely tasteful bass solo. Talk about rare. I thought it was all a dream until one day I woke up, on a stage, playing this song. Far out.

FUCK OFF PT II

More innocent than it reads after initial entry, it’s like a prepubescent Gang Of Four. Angry but not quite politicised. Post-punk but not quite searing your ears clean off. It’s somewhere between all that, steadily marching it’s way into your head.

MELON COTTAGE

A multi-voiced monster, that like a low order batsman hauling one over the hill, smashed a largely improvised delivery and ended up on the album. None of us saw it coming. Atmosphere plus.

DYING IN THE SUN

Something of a live favourite, this song ended up naming the whole bloody album. Despite wanting to avoid that sort of thing originally this song seemed to handily sum up what this collection of tracks feel like as a whole piece. Also helps that the title itself isn’t awful.

PANTS ON MOUTH SHUT

At just over two minutes, this is both a very short song and a very long-winded way to tell someone to shut up. I haven’t heard many requests for silence as catchy as this, so it’s got quite a lot going for it really. Good, clean fun for people who enjoy telling their mates to fuck off.

CONCRETE

Pretty much a song Neil Young hasn’t written yet being covered by The Wipers. Pretty much as in not quite. Not quite as in that is the spiritual home of the song but it’s the Hound version of punk rock, through and through.

FAIR SHAKE

The very first song this little band got together. It’s a strangely tidy mess of reggae and punk that has roundly refused to be taken seriously ever since we met it. Fresher than it has any business being, it was the perfect song to finish the album with. Wrapping up #1 with where this whole thing started off.

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