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Hinds – Bats

Madrid-based indie duo Hinds — a.k.a Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote – released their utterly triumphant and highly anticipated new album VIVA HINDS a few weeks ago, and now, ahead of their U.S. tour starting next week, they have shared the bilingual Spanish and English bonus track, “Bats”.

The band say “we wrote ‘BATS’ the week after watching ANOTHER ROUND (DRUK) in the movies. we couldn’t stop thinking about it, especially the last scene where Mad Mikkelsen starts dancing frenetically until he jumps fully dressed to the water. ‘BATS’ is accepting everything is blurry and confusing. in spanish and in english. it’s a dance with your darkest thoughts. a dance with your ugliest demons.

The band’s world-wide tour in support of VIVA HINDS, kicks off in the US next week. Having played sold-out London shows in May and September, Hinds will return to the UK in early 2025 for a full headline tour, starting in Brighton on February 17th – all dates and tickets are available here.

Hinds – The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You

Today Hinds return with “The Bed, The Room, The Rain And You”, the final single before they release their new album VIVA HINDS in its entirety next month, and the only song on the album sung in both English and Spanish.

On the new single, Carlotta Cosials & Ana Perrote note, “It’s a love song that has nothing to do with being with the other person or even whether it is reciprocated. We’re talking about the most simple version of it. Love is like a magic shelter that you can take everywhere with you.” On the music video, they add, “we started this adventure of directing all the music videos of this album with a bag full of imagination and dreams. the friends, the bikes, the dancing, a business that never existed, the body guards of beck, and ice-creams, hollywood, and surrealism and tiny houses. very slowly we wanted to guide you and place your attention in what we really do: music. For ‘The bed, the room, the rain and you,’ we wanted to finish the story with where everything started: recording the album.

Hinds - The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You

Hinds – Superstar

Today, the Madrid-based indie duo Hinds — a.k.a Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote – share another absolutely massive single, “Superstar”, accompanied by another self-directed music video. Rolling Stone recently called it a “soon-to-be Hinds classic”, as the song simmers delicately before it explodes into an empowering, if rageful, rallying cry: “Good job / Now you’re a local superstar / That only hangs with superstars / Carrying the weight of all that fame! / Carrying humanity’s joy and pain.” It’s the latest taste of their utterly triumphant and highly anticipated new album VIVA HINDS, out on September 6th.

‘Superstar’ talks about the disappointment and the pain you feel when someone you love deeply, disappears with no explanation” say Hinds. “You feel worthless, you start thinking you never really knew that person and you question your shared past, and if what you remember really happened. It’s hard to let people go but writing this song helped. People need closure, and this song is ours.

Hinds are back in the UK this September, playing a sold-out London headline show at Lafayette on the 13th, before returning in early 2025 for a full UK and European tour, now including a new show at London’s historic Electric Ballroom on the 26th of February. All dates and tickets are on their website now.

Hinds – En Forma

Today, beloved Spanish indie rockers Hinds, a.k.a Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote, have shared “En Forma”, the latest single from their forthcoming album VIVA HINDS. It’s their first track to be sung entirely in Spanish and with their rapid-fire delivery, the duo mirror the head-spinning anxiety of the onset of a panic attack.

On the new single, Carlotta shares “My boyfriend broke up with me and I turned 30 years old in the same week. This was the first song I could write after months of feeling absolutely devastated, immobile and pathetic. I just wanted to get better but I just couldn’t, I couldn’t cope with this eternal race of being happier and better and cleaner and healthier.” Ana adds, “When I talk with my girlfriends, in the same afternoon we can chat about wars, philosophy, love and clothes. I tried to reflect on this song the chaos and huge spectrum of what it’s like to be a young woman these days. How overwhelming it can be to juggle the news, politics, our bodies, relationships and laundry.

Hinds – VIVA HINDS + Boom Boom Back (ft. Beck)

Beloved Spanish indie rockers Hinds today announce the release of their utterly triumphant fourth album, VIVA HINDS, written by the band’s co-founders, co-vocalists, co-guitarists and co-songwriters Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote after a series of endings. Hitting a creative rut following the release of their 2020 album The Prettiest Curse, their bassist and drummer devastatingly decided to leave the band. They also split with their management team, lost touring revenue due to lockdowns, and were without a label for the first time. But when Perrote and Cosials got together to write again, it became clear that their connection, one so special that they call themselves “millionaires in friendship,” would be all they needed to get them through. VIVA HINDS – the most accomplished, sonically adventurous, honest and celebratory record of Hinds’ career – is only the beginning.

Featuring the band’s first-ever Spanish language songs, as well as collaborations with Beck and Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, the album will be released on September 6th. Recorded in rural France, the album was produced by Pete Robertson (Beabadoobee), engineered by the GRAMMY-nominated Tom Roach, and mixed by GRAMMY-winning engineer Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg).

Alongside the announcement of VIVA HINDS, the band have also shared their massive lead single “Boom Boom Back”, the first song Hinds wrote for the new record. The hypnotic track features the aforementioned Beck, who they met by chance at a film screening on a trip to LA. The accompanying music video, brimming with bravado and Hinds’ unmistakeable charm, was filmed in Hollywood and directed by Perote and Cosials themselves.

Hinds - Boom Boom Back ft. Beck

Hinds have created the most accomplished album of their careers, one that celebrates their shared history and reaffirms that this band is in it for the long haul with VIVA HINDS, expect to hear much more in the coming months.