Video: Hobart W Fink, ‘So Many Losers’
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The video for Hobart W Fink’s new single is smashing, if the song itself isn’t. The L.A. quartet of singer-guitarist Jayk Gallagher, singer Lauren Lakis, bassist Noe Santiago and drummer AJ Brown is cut from ’90s indie cloth, with a heavy stitching of irony, and “So Many Losers” sounds like something X and the B-52’s might’ve hammered out over coffee. The song comes out of a recording session Hobart W Fink did with engineer/mixer Chris Kasych (Haim, Wavves, Santigold, Rye Rye) as it works on “Back and Forth Forever,” the full-length debut planned for August. Meanwhile, Hobart W Fink and friends get their ya ya’s out in the video, mugging, moshing and wrecking television sets, as well as missing an opportunity to actually say something. What if those TV sets were cell phones?
||| Download: “So Many Losers” at Bandcamp.
||| Live: Hobart W Fink play the Silverlake Lounge on Friday and the Old Towne Pub Stage at Make Music Pasadena on Saturday.
[…] and Youngblood Hawke team up for a night of fun pop. ‣ Indie-rock quartet Hobart W. Fink [see "So Many Losers"] celebrate the release of their full-length “Back and Forth Forever” on the final night […]