EARLY WORD: Clap Hands, Say Yes

Brooklyn electropop duo The Hundred In The Hands drop their second album, Red Night, this week. The duo is named after an infamous 1866 ambush led by Crazy Horse – no, not a member of Neil Young’s band, but the actual Indian warrior. Like that battle their sound draws you into a trap with its sweet siren song, surprises you and envelops you until you succumb.  Their solid debut album wore its influences – 80’s keyboard pop, primarily – broadly on its sleeve, but revealed glimpses of what they could mature into. Their new album is the sound of a band who has mined their album collection and struck gold and a harder edge, creating a more unique, developed, cinematic sound – it’s the audio equivalent of a dreamy, late-night drive in a dense fog – full of meditations on loss, sputtering rhythms and guitars urgently attempting to stab their way through the murk to the light. You’ll have to listen for yourself to find out if they make it out alive. — PETE TROSHAK

THE HUNDREDS IN THE HANDS PLAY KUNG FU NECK TIE ON JUE 18th