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On his 2011 debut Will The Guns Come Out, Hanni El Khatib tried something hed never tried beforemaking a bedroom-style recording of his stripped brand of rocknroll mostly for the sheer joy of making it. For his ferocious 2013 follow-up Head In The Dirt, he tried something new again, enlisting Dan Auerbach as a producer.
But after Head In The Dirts release and almost a year of relentless touring, Hanni knew he needed to go past unpredictable all the way to unprecedented. He needed isolation, time and the chance to experiment. So after 30 days locked in hand-picked L.A. studio The Lair, the result is the album Moonlightthe rarest and most welcome kind of album, made at that perfect point in life where confidence, experience, and technique unite to help an artist do anything they want.
Thats why it starts with a song that sounds like a Mobb Deep beat under a Suicide-style synth drone and ends with an ESG-meets-LCD Soundsystem gone italo-disco song about life and death. Thats why it collides crushing crate-digger drumbeats thatd be right at home on a Can LP or an Eddie Bo 45 with bleeding distorto guitar, bent and broken barroom piano and hallucinatory analog flourishes.
Engine-revving dose of filthy, leather-clad blues. NME
A shit-kicking garage greaser with badass hooks. SPIN
Stripped- down garage rock with crunching guitars and kiss-off cockiness. GQ
This is desert-burned blues rock boosted by punk, soul and hip-hop ROLLING STONE
RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: The Black Keys, The Clash and The Stooges
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