Hindershot | ja

Hindershot was founded on a simple premise: music, however challenging, should always be a good time. Despite poetic lyrics, unusual chord changes, complex harmonies, and an eclectic list of influences (Beck, T. Rex, Electric Light Orchestra, Blondie, The Beach Boys, Built to Spill), Hindershot boasts a repertoire of post-whatever jams you can actually dance to. With lyrical content ranging from the mundane and light-hearted (inhalers, insects, and oscillating fans) to the grandiose and grim (black holes, death, and men with guns during the Democratic National Convention), songwriter Stuart Confer weaves a complex, mythologized autobiography through details and metaphor. In another...