Hookworms‘
balls-out, no nonsense approach to music is very much a breath of fresh
air in an increasingly tame and polished music industry. The
Leeds-based five piece are known only as JN, JW, MB, MJ and SS in order
to ensure a focus on the music itself, rather than any personalities
within the band. Not that the music needs any attention drawing to it –
2013’s Pearl Mystic
mercilessly battered you around the head in a haze of guitars and
largely indecipherable, piercing vocals. Though indisputedly a part of
the psych revival of recent years, Hookworms occupy their very own
niche, combining elements of shoegaze and noise with the DIY elements of
hardcore and garage rock.
