Joel Hood makes escapist Friday night music heard through the haze of a foggy Monday morning. The North Yorkshireman’s music transports you straight out of a cold working town and drops you into a hazy world of intercontinental sonic voyaging, taking in fragments of family holidays and adult travel adventures cut and pasted into instrumentals that evoke DJ Shadow, Twin Peaks and The Avalanches stargazing in the middle of nowhere, with Hood’s voice weaving between it all.
Already profiled by the Guardian and Music Week plus picking up support from Rob Da Bank and BBC6Music, his debut EP for International Feel features four tracks of psychedelic fusion carrying hints of 80s nostalgia amidst hedonistic futurism.
BACKGROUND
o Music is certainly taking Joel Hood somewhere else. Last year he was working for his builder dad and making music in his Ripon spare room with a borrowed drum machine, a ‘crappy’ keyboard and the various percussion instruments his friends brought home from their travels. Out of the window of Hood’s Yorkshire home studio there’s a wheat field where you’ll find pheasants, owls and sometimes, the odd deer poking its nose through the fence.
o+ An accidental vocalist, with his singing sitting somewhere between a sample, an instrument and just part of the tropical music landscape he creates, his four track debut EP exercises his love of old audio samples culled from film, radio and YouTube. Take EP track ‘In Turmoil’, which layers a friends American road movie along the Pacific coast with his own Yellow Magic Orchestra style synthesizers and a slowburn headnod.
o+o As a remixer he’s brought his unique musical filter to Phoenix, Tythe and Astronauts and released a couple of downloads through Bad Panda before signing an album deal with world-leading Balearic label International Feel. Expect to be hearing a lot more from Joel Hood in the coming months with a live show set to be launched in time for this release. “We’ve released just about every style of music (cos we’re Balearic) except Dreamy Pop….which of course is well Balearic, so here’s Joel Hood to bliss y’all out” Mark Barrott, International Feel founder
Already profiled by the Guardian and Music Week plus picking up support from Rob Da Bank and BBC6Music, his debut EP for International Feel features four tracks of psychedelic fusion carrying hints of 80s nostalgia amidst hedonistic futurism.
BACKGROUND
o Music is certainly taking Joel Hood somewhere else. Last year he was working for his builder dad and making music in his Ripon spare room with a borrowed drum machine, a ‘crappy’ keyboard and the various percussion instruments his friends brought home from their travels. Out of the window of Hood’s Yorkshire home studio there’s a wheat field where you’ll find pheasants, owls and sometimes, the odd deer poking its nose through the fence.
o+ An accidental vocalist, with his singing sitting somewhere between a sample, an instrument and just part of the tropical music landscape he creates, his four track debut EP exercises his love of old audio samples culled from film, radio and YouTube. Take EP track ‘In Turmoil’, which layers a friends American road movie along the Pacific coast with his own Yellow Magic Orchestra style synthesizers and a slowburn headnod.
o+o As a remixer he’s brought his unique musical filter to Phoenix, Tythe and Astronauts and released a couple of downloads through Bad Panda before signing an album deal with world-leading Balearic label International Feel. Expect to be hearing a lot more from Joel Hood in the coming months with a live show set to be launched in time for this release. “We’ve released just about every style of music (cos we’re Balearic) except Dreamy Pop….which of course is well Balearic, so here’s Joel Hood to bliss y’all out” Mark Barrott, International Feel founder
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