FLOWERS BLOOM ON NEW EP

So Flowers to Hide have been around since, what, 2001 or so? And do you have their record? No. Cause they haven't put one out yet. Granted, they've been seemingly on-again off-again during the years, and they did do some recording earlier on in their life. But NOTHING like their forthcoming (and still tentatively named) 503 ep, which they recently wrapped-up recording at Sugarhill studios. And, presumably for a limited time while they bother themselves with things like artwork and reproduction and packaging, they've got the entire thing up for your streaming pleasure on their MySpace page.

503 takes the sometimes cold, nearly always bummed-out and rarely temperature-rising recent trend towards shoegazing and paints over the cold blue with a fresh coat of red and orange. In spite of the recent standout tracks in this direction locally, only Flowers to Hide seem to have remembered that some of the hottest jams ever to come out of Space City were recorded by dudes who packed their videos full of hot rods. The ep combines the largeness and fetish for effects of early Ride with the danceable tempos of New Wave and the anti-hookism of post-punk.

Flowers to Hide don't have a show scheduled till May, so hearing their reborn sound on record will have to do for now. Helluva substitute. Recommended.

Stream: Flowers to Hide - 503 ep