Shuga is teaming up with the fellas from NE-HI to bring you “Offers” the second album from the Chicago genre-melting quartet. We will be releasing our limited to 200 “Shuga Records Exclusive” on Clear vinyl starting 2/24/17 and that evening the boys will be in the store performing! So come on by, grab your vinyl and let NE-HI melt your faces off.
PREORDERS for the Shuga Exclusive have started and can be ordered HERE: http://ow.ly/hJP73080lcR
Offers drones, it captivates with soaring pop, it shimmers with atmosphere, always changing, looking. The album veers from the staccato pop of “Palm of Hand” (which nods to Chicago’s Disappears) to the jangly pleasures of “Stay Young.” The off-kilter, ultra-catchy “Sisters” refines the carefree feeling of the band’s debut–picking up the spirit of New Zealand pop. Title track “Offers” feels like a slight departure, the band pushing its most abstract and unpredictable instincts. On “Prove” the band’s post-punk guitars come at blistering tempo, it’s the band’s most athletic moment yet. While the punchy drawl of “Buried on the Moon” conjures a less sleepy Let’s Active.
Offers finds the distant influence of forebears in cerebral guitar pop presented with a familiarity that typifies great FM rock hits. The Midwestern boys (two from Chicago, one from Wisconsin, and one from Minnesota) in NE-HI have a knack for knitting something comfortable and warm from those art school cast-offs and cult favorites. NE-HI’s music demands to be lived in. Chances are good that in the case of Offers, regifting will be rare.