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"Nothing's new, nothing's old," declares Cut Off Your Hands singer Nick Johnston on "Turn Cold", from the New Zealand indie pop group's debut album You and I, which gets its U.S. release next month. You know what? Johnston might be onto something. His voice here is all Robert Smith whimper (a familiar sound to Suede's Bernard Butler, who produced this LP as well as Black Kids' first proper album), while Michael Ramirez's bright, sharp guitar riffs are Johnny Marr in full-on punctured-bicycle-on-a-hillside-desolate shimmy. I might just be getting old, but these old things work like a charm on "Turn Cold", filled out by handclaps and occasional R.E.M.-tinged acoustic guitar strums along with rapidfire basslines and steady kick-kick-snare drumming. "If these walls never cease to close in, don't me turn cold," Johnston cries, echoed by a backing singer. Like the finer moments of Voxtrot, the Lodger, or, yes, those rough 'n' ready Black Kids MySpace streams-- though probably not your microwave-- "Turn Cold" manages to reheat cryogenically preserved sounds without anything turning soggy.MP3:> Cut Off Your Hands: "Turn Cold"[from You and I; due 01/20/08 in the U.S. on Frenchkiss Records]
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Cut Off Your Hands have announced a string of US dates, kicking off at the end of the month in Hartford, CT.
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Holly Golightly, Hockey, Rolo Tomassi and Cut Off Your Hands were among the bands who played slots on the first afternoon of the South By Southwest festival in Austin today (March 18).
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