(Andy Synn is far from indifferent to the new album from Hippotraktor, out tomorrow on Pelagic Records)
Contrary to popular belief, there is at least some method to our madness here at NCS.
I’ll grant you, said method mostly just amounts to us messaging each other back and forth going “do you want this… I can do it if you don’t have time… ok, you do that one instead…” but it’s a method that mostly/sort of/kinda works.
Case in point, my man DGR originally had Hippotraktor‘s new one pencilled in on his review queue but eventually yielded it to me when he realised that, with everything else going on, he just wouldn’t have time to give it the attention it deserved.
And since it was me who originally wrote about the band here, way back in 2021 when I reviewed their first album, it only made sense that I be the one to pick up the slack.
So let’s see how much the band have changed in the last three years, or whether they’ve just remained… in stasis.
