Demob Happy

Who’s the Daddy?

7/10

Out Hud is a fearlessly imaginative and unusual clash of post-rock, funk, acid, electro and house. Often sounding freeform but nevertheless packed with complexities, each track is an instrumental journey full of stylistic twists and turns - none least ‘L Train Is a Swell Train and I Don’t Want to Hear You Indies Complain’, a 12-minute acid-funk opus that evolves seamlessly through several unlikely genres. Don’t let the wacky titles put you off, Out Hud are the collective you long to see live - irreverent, funky, seismic. Industrial-strength drumming competes with shuffling electro rythmns, violins interwine with jazzy keyboars, old-school acid synths battle against post-punk guitar - I shouldn’t work but it does.