October 28th, 2015 12:40pm
Amazing Feelings Juice
Hinds “Chili Town”
Hinds is a band of charming, effortlessly cool Spanish girls, and “Chili Town” is their most charming and effortlessly cool song. I’m sure there are people who would hear this and actually wish they’d put a bit more effort into it – it always sounds like one thing could go wrong and collapse at any moment, and their voices have a…sorta casual relationship with the notion of singing in tune. But that lead guitar part really nails a relaxed yet vaguely nervous feeling, and I don’t know if these lyrics about being so flirty and bratty to mask underlying feelings of uncertainty and impatience would come off as perfectly if they didn’t sound so very cool. The lyrics are fantastic too, full of vivid language like “amazing feelings juice,” “my laugh is oversized,” “saliva mixed with lies,” and “I am swimming in the dark because all your friends are sharks.” I like that they just state the subtext of their actions in the song, because in the actual moment, they’re just doing everything they can to keep it buried because they want some dude to catch a hint.
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