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Hinds (FKA Deers) Are Bringing Their Fuzzy Garage Pop to Australia

Making their first visit outside of Europe, the Spanish garage poppers are looking forward to some February sun and fun.

Due to legal pressure from an unnamed Canadian band, Madrid’s Hinds recently had to change their name from Deers.

But you get the feeling that the four Madrileños are too busy running around the Spanish capital, drinking Estrella Galicia and planning a summer tour to Australia to worry about some sad Canucks freezing their arses off in Montreal.

On their first tour outside Europe, the girls will be hitting venues in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Pretty good going for a band that has yet to release a full -length album.

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Garcia Perrote and Carlotta Cosials formed as a duo in 2014 and their raw garage pop quickly made an impact on Soundcloud and beyond. They enlisted the help of friends Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen and continued to write songs about busted and mended relationships.

You can expect the debut album later in 2015 but in the meantime catch them in Australia.

We caught up with Garcia to find out more about their trajectory and where they are headed.

Noisey: So you are on your way to Australia and you have yet to release a full length LP. That’s cool! Do you find it a bid odd too?
Garcia Perrote: We feel so lucky. We know this is so unusual, we are still a baby band but we know how hard is to do this, so you can't imagine how much do we appreciate it :)

You recently met Bobby Gillespie. Was he like you expected?
He was such a sweetheart. We loved the way he is such a big star and such a big music fan at the same time, no matter how many plays in Soundcloud have the band he likes. That's cool. He's pure.

Is there a Spanish version of Bobby?
No man, not at all. If we have to say a big Spanish artist we'd say Camaron. But the comparison doesn't make too much sense. Are you going to keep the raw recording feel on the LP?
Of course! We're recording the album withe Diego García, our friend who first recorded our demo and then mixed our second single too. So we are the same people creating an album, it will have the same spirit!

I’ve never been to Madrid but I’ve heard it’s fun. If you were to show me around in 24- hours what would we do? What is your local bar?
We spend almost all of our time in the streets. Madrid has the best weather in the world so you really can do that and it's the cheapest thing! Our favorite bars are also the cheapest ones, or the ones we have friends working there as waiters haha. Is Callos a specialty in Madrid? Do you like it?
Yes it a specialty. But I don’t like it at all. If you have tried it you would understand! What are you looking forward the most to your Australian trip?
Having summer gigs in fucking February!!!

Catch Hinds at these upcoming East Coast shows:
Feb 18 –Sydney at GoodGod with Julia Why? + Black Zeros
Feb 19 – Brisbane at Black Bear Lodge with The Courtneys
Feb 21 – Sydney at Moonshine at The Steyne with Bloods
Feb 22 – Melbourne at John Curtin Hotel with ScotDrakula + KT Spit