The Hundred in the Hands Set Album Release

Here is what their PR peeps sent over: The Hundred in the Hands LP is an album of deceptively complex pop songs which hark back to the dance music of NYC's storied underground. Where their recent This Desert EP feels like a summertime pop dream, THITH's forthcoming album conjures the spirit of downtown's mutant disco scene as made legendary by clubs like the Paradise Garage.

It's a product of DIY home-recording plus a series of studio sessions in London and New York with contributions by producer friends including Jacques Renault, Richard X, Eric Broucek and Chris Zane.

With a brassy carnality, the record veers from disco dazed, avant-pop ("Young Aren't Young") to teenage angst, boredom and pop heartache ("Pigeons") as Jason Friedman's piercing guitar lines cross paths with Eleanore Everdell's soaring harmonies and Siouxsie-esque yelps. A late-night dance party ("Commotion") and post-R&B dub ("This Day Is Made," "Lovesick (Once Again)") spin into mash-ups of skuzzy rock riffs and obliterated beats ("Gold Blood"), until they are relieved in an austere anti-ballad to failed rebellion ("The Beach"). Elsewhere, glistening, conversational minimal wave ("Killing It") bleeds into dreamy synth-pop ("Dead Ending"), crumbles into restrained punk ("Last City") and bursts in the song that started it all�the incisive disco-punk dance-off, "Dressed in Dresden."