kitschesque 9,882 Posted June 6, 2017 HMLTD, formerly Happy Meal LTD, are the in-your-face sado-glam, hyper-individualist artpop collective who won’t take ‘eh?’ for an answer. Over three singles – the hype-questioning ‘Is This What You Wanted?’, the visceral ‘Stained’ and Tarantino-gone-Rocky Horror western banger ‘To The Door’ – HMLTD have built their own inclusive cult community by drawing on every strand of outsider pop’s shock-and-awe tactics, from Ziggy Stardust through New Romanticism to The Prodigy and Peaches. “The fundamental idea behind the live show is that it exploits every sense rather than just the ears,” explains Spychalski. “Even down to how things smell in the room. At one of our shows we filled all the ashtrays with burning hair.” As a band who have angels handing out lipsticks at the door of their gigs, HMLTD are a key new component of the current gender revolution, but by embracing and challenging pop’s formulas on tracks like ‘To The Door’ they aim to impact mainstream culture just as fundamentally. They speak of a “wider movement”, of a “rebellion against categorisation”. But mostly they yearn for a new form of beauty. HMLTD: gorgeously grotesque. Full article HERE. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trayertrash 7,210 Posted June 6, 2017 My first thought was "if Nick Cave was a modern hipster..." 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kitschesque 9,882 Posted June 6, 2017 My first thought was "if Nick Cave was a modern hipster..." Yes to that! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kitschesque 9,882 Posted January 9, 2018 This thread is dead but it's waiting for the band's rise This is MAD good I swear just listen I'm 2 weeks late but anyway 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites