GIMME TINNITUS

Geoffrey & Ryan of Hands sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of q and also a.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

g: Colouring of Pigeons (mp3) from The Knife‘s opera Tomorrow In a Year

r: I Think I Can (mp3) by Animal Collective

q: What is your favorite food?

g: Changes all the time but right now; bacon and eggs.

r: Potatoes, any kind

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

g: Radiohead

Watch: Reckoner (Live Haiti Benefit 2010) (youtube)

r: Battles

Listen: Atlas (mp3)

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

g: Music Hall of Williamsburg

r: Union Hall

q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?

g: Daniel Johnston

Listen: Casper The Friendly Ghost (mp3)

r: Eddy Lepp

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

g: We record, engineer and mix everything… mostly cause we’re broke.

r: We make it with our hands.

Listen: Returning (mp3)

Listen: Hold (mp3)

Listen: Hold (J. Yates Remix) (mp3)

You can download the Hold Remix EP for $0.00 @ Free Music Archive.

Watch: Windows (vimeo)

Hands is on Myspace
Hands is on Facebook
Hands is on Free Music Archive
Hands is on elbo.ws
Hands is on Hype Machine
Hands is on Brother & Brother
Hands is on Headphonica
Hands is on iTunes
Hands is on eMusic

Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010.

Downloadables:

Spector (mp3) by Signals

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Written In Reverse (mp3) by Spoon

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

I Do (mp3) by Screaming Females

Self Awakening (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Blessa (mp3) by Toro y Moi

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

See Waves (mp3) by Nice Nice

some lonesome street corner (USF remix) (mp3) by cars & trains

Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3) by Gucci Mane

Jail La La (mp3) by Dum Dum Girls

Me Thing Drawing Me (mp3) by Javelin

Everything Will Be Alright (mp3) by Golden Ages

Hold (mp3) by Hands

Years (Five – Eight) (mp3) by Starscream

Teenage Whore (mp3) by Dinosaur Feathers

Can’t Stay Awake (mp3) by Cloud Nothings

Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:

Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5

Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

Headquartered in LA (via Philly), the duo of Geoffrey Halliday and Ryan James Sweeney are known as Hands. They are purveyors of what I will call experimental indiefolksynthpop. They have a new single that is to be released on Feb 26 via the German label Headphonica. It will sound something like this…

Downloadable: Hold (mp3)

Grab a track from Hands’ self-recorded Cities EP over at the Knox Road blog.

I can’t help but wonder… will Hands tour with Arms? I hope so.

Headphonica is here.
Brother & Brother is here.
The Cities EP iTunes page is here.
eMusic page is here.