Product Description

Brothers Brandon & Richard Laws have been making
music for over a decade. Like all great family bands,
their voices sound like they were borne of the same
place. Together, the debut studio album from their group
Hosannas, honors those years refining their craft while
making it clear that the place their music comes from is
extraordinarily unique.
Make no mistake while this record is accessible (even
infectious), it is not a record you have heard before. The
sound is dark and huge. Place it somewhere between
your first memory of being really excited about music,
and something like the blurred wave of brain activity that
greets you when you re almost asleep. Band mates Lane
Barrington and Cristof Hendrickson help to build the
songs into lithe, almost sentient forms, a distillation of
hundreds of live performances together, and this living
trust is captured beautifully by producer John Askew
(The Dodos, Mount Analogue, Karl Blau). The album as
a whole is immersive in a way that is increasingly rare in
today s culture of atrophied attention spans. The story
told here will bring to mind thoughtfully constructed
albums of the past, presenting a cohesive whole that
reflects a singular vision.

Review

At times recalls bands like Animal Collective and Deer
Hunter, whose experimental approach to pop is as
deconstructionist as it is brilliant. --The Oregonian
One of Portland s finest indie outfits. --Portland Mercury