Currently split between Copenhagen, Thessaloniki and Stony Brook -New York, Hoi-Poi emerge from the murky waters of the early COVID era with a brand new two-part single, entitled “Uncle Boonmee”.
Sounding as dark and inauspicious as ever, the band unravel the tumult of being locked down, separated and disjointed through unrelentingly heavy and intense riffage. The technicality and experimentation of the material on “Sain’t Adorable” reaches a new high in the 4 minutes & 23 seconds of the single’s total runtime, split between the titular “Uncle Boonmee”and accompanying track, “Tannin”. Lyrically, “Uncle Boonmee” loosely draws inspiration from the 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul film, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”: through the vicious cycle of life in lockdown and quarantine, a constant swing between hope and despondency, one is able to “recall their past lives”–since they have all started to seem identical. “Tannin” on the other hand, is a disparate prayer, a cry of desperation, heavily influenced by the Book of Job (Chapter 7). The single was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pantelis Benosat True North Sound Artworks in Thessaloniki, during the band’s limited time together over the first few months of 2021, with some parts also recorded at Crisp Studio in Copenhagen by Christian Hjort Jakobsen. It is a standalone offering of material written immediately after the release of the band’s 2020 full-length album “Sain’t Adorable”.
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