Photo by Bronte Godden
Australian alt-dance trio Haiku Hands (Claire Nakazawa, Beatrice Lewis, and Mie Nakazawa) release their anticipated sophomore album Pleasure Beast via Spinning Top Records. The record is a sonic exploration of the different realms of Haiku Hands‘ minds, life experiences, energies, and beast modes… sometimes there is joy, and sometimes there is mayhem; sometimes four on the floor (recent single “Cool For You”), and sometimes a tropical island dream bath (today’s focus single “Paradise”). They are also currently in the US joining Big Freedia to close out this year with a real life party. Listen to Pleasure Beast HERE.
Their new album follows the success of their 2020 self-titled debut, dubbed an “unapologetic blast of gleeful rebellion,” that received critical acclaim from the likes of NME, Rolling Stone, DIY and Paste. They burst back onto the scene earlier this year with electronic-punk dance floor heater, “Nunchucka,” followed by fan favorite, “Ma Ruler,” designed to make you feel you’re deep in the belly of an underground warehouse banger, whether you’re dancing alone in your home, in the park on a sunny Saturday, or in the cereal aisle on a routine grocery run.
“Over the last few years while making this album the world has felt like its unravelled more and more and in that undoing these songs offer you a place to find and hold yourself when the walls feel like they are crumbling. A place to find and hold others around you, whether it’s on the dance floor, in your heart or in your automated out of office email response.
These are our stories that help us make sense of what is happening in us and around us. Sometimes there is a loudness and sometimes there is a quietness. Sometimes we are introverted and sometimes we are on jet skies screaming with megaphones, towing a boat with your grandma and my grandma on it smoking massive cigars.
We are 3 people coming together from quite different musical backgrounds trying to find overlapping moments to create art from.”
