Consumer Guide Album

Hinds: Viva Hinds [Lucky175, 2024]
The two women who now constitute this Spanish girl group say they were fortunate even to finance their third album, a wee thing comprising just 10 three-minute songs. But in some respects they've hit the jackpot—just not emotionally. "Your mum and dad are paying all your bills" unpropitious, "Please don't look at me with those eyes" worse, "You just fucked it up and now you can't take it back" ballgame. In not a single song do they achieve the romantic bliss that somehow remains their goal, and at times the shortfall is their fault. But aesthetically that's still what they're in it for, and aesthetically I believe they're good enough to get lucky or even make it happen some day. A-