Hood (band)
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Leeds, England |
| Genres | Post-rock, indie rock, electronic |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels | Domino Records, Misplaced Music, Slumberland Records, Happy Go Lucky Records, Fluff Records |
| Website | hoodmusic.net |
| Members | Chris Adams Richard Adams |
| Past members | John Clyde-Evans Nicola Hodgkinson Andrew Johnson Stephen Royle Craig Tattersall Gareth S. Brown Mark Wright Stewart Anderson Matt Robson |
Hood are an English indie rock band from Leeds, formed in 1991. The band consists of brothers Chris and Richard Adams, and friends (including, at times, Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson of The Remote Viewer, and Nicola Hodgkinson of Empress).
Hood's first releases were very limited vinyl singles on various small independent record labels.
In 1994, record labels Fluff and Slumberland Records released Hood's first full length album, Cabled Linear Traction. Slumberland also released 1996's Silent '88, and the following year Happy Go Lucky Records released Structured Disasters, a compilation of tracks from singles. All featured a large number of short tracks (many of less than a minute), a mixture of indie rock, noise experiments reminiscent of Sonic Youth or Pavement, and an increasing interest in electronics.
In 1997, Domino Records signed Hood and released the single "Useless". Produced by Matt Elliott (better known as the Third Eye Foundation), it was a far more straightforward and tuneful song than any they had released so far. Elliott toured with the band, and produced the albums Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys and The Cycle of Days and Seasons. Like the single, these abandoned the short songs and instrumental snippets for longer pieces, with a pastoral sound similar to Bark Psychosis or Talk Talk. The band continued to release singles for other labels; "The Weight", for 555 Recordings, was a return to the older style with eight tracks on a 7" disc.
Collaborating with friends Doseone and Why? from the Anticon collective, Hood released their fifth album, Cold House in 2001. The work combined elements of post-rock, IDM, and indie with Doseone and Why?'s lyrical talents and featured the single "You Show No Emotion At All".
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