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Hand Is Bad | Luggage

Hand Is Bad by Luggage, released 29 September 2023 1. Hand Is Bad 2. Circled 3. Sunshine In Your Teeth 4. Beautiful Truck 5. Mirror It 6. River 7. Ends 8. The Poison 9. Deep North 10. Nowhere There’s a moment in a 1980’s BBC documentary on The Velvet Underground when John Cale invokes Dylan as “having all questions and no answers,” illustrating his point with a dismissive hand wave of a quote, “how many times must a man ... blah blah blah”. Whoa! Shots fired! Then, you had Dale Bozzio throw the baby out with the bathwater altogether by saying “what are words for / when no one listens anymore.” A lot to ponder, but a bit of heavy-handed absolutism there when it comes to rock having to be literate or not. The power of words in conjunction with rock music rarely follows a single rule. There are many approaches to utilizing language. Wire created a dazzling array of words to add colorful enhancement to its instrumental economy. D. Boon took Wire’s economy and used words to preach. Dam