HOO HAs cause a scene with ‘Hanna’

Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from HOO HAs.

There’s no messing about with HOO HAs latest. Like a clap of thunder, ‘Hanna’ makes no bones about its arrival - an explosive splash of potential, in and out in just over two minutes.

Buoyed by gang chants and riffs crunchier than a honeycob chocolate bar, it’s an anthemic riot, built for sweat-soaked, beer stained basements and sweaty hugathons. They cause exactly the frivolous, calamitous chaos they’re named after, that oh-so-British twist shining through in their deadpan delivery of some twisted truths…

“‘Hanna’ was written in the heat of a bitter moment,” explains frontman Jamie. “The end of a relationship can lead to you saying things despite knowing there is more to the story. Now looking back to when I was writing ‘Hanna’ I feel I may have been focusing on her immaturity to avoid confronting my own…”

Get the first spin of ‘Hanna’ below. It’s taken from a self-titled EP, out on July 29th.