Hood

Hailing from Leeds, England, the lo-fi bliss-pop band Hood featured Andrew Johnson, Chris Adams, Richard Adams, John Clyde-Evans, Craig Tattersall, and Nicola Hodgkinson among its members. Their first release arrived in 1992 as the 7" single "Sirens." Following the 1993 single "Opening Into Enclosure," the 1994 album Cabled Linear Traction gathered those two prior tracks. After remaining inactive for all of 1995, Hood resurfaced the next year with multiple new recordings; the three singles "Lee Faust Million Piece Orchestra," "A Harbour of Thoughts," and "I've Forgotten How to Live" appeared on separate labels, while the full-length Silent '88 also emerged. In 1997 the ten-track EP Secrets Now Known to Others collected material originally intended for Silent '88 but left off the album, and the record Structured Disasters came out the same year. The Cycle of Days and Seasons appeared on Domino in 1999, though it received no American release. The 2001 EP Home Is Where It Hurts marked the group’s first stateside issue in four years and highlighted an increasingly electronic approach. Cold House, another bleak and experimental album issued that same year, extended the same sonic shift. The Lost You EP surfaced late in 2004 ahead of the 2005 album Outside Closer.