Join Hands by Congratulations

For fans of Underscores, Gang of Four, Jesse Ware, dance punk, and the decision to boldly and colorfully express yourself in the oppressive age of cringe, Join Hands by Congratulations finds a million musical ways to get us to move our bodies and celebrate in the face of a mass culture deprived of whimsical joy. Angular guitar riffs slot into deep rhythmic grooves to craft punk anti-anthems, memorable melodic moments which we would struggle to sing along to but find ourselves dancing to effortlessly. A staggeringly diverse array of influences from funk guitar to hip hop percussion to bubblegum vocals to disco production indicates a defiant and singular state of self-expression, a style so personal as to instantly make cohesive sense as the author’s creative voice pervades all these inclusions. As influences all around us encourage our personalities to shrink, our expression to dampen, our spirits to hush, resistance looks like a wild, extravagant, uninhibited party, the sort of creation which inherently confronts totalitarianism in all its forms.