Bleep

Hirola are a new act emerging out of Bristol made of one part edapollo and one part former Old Apparatus members LTO. The group’s self-titled first release sees them channelling the creme de la creme of 2010s indietronica - Bonobo, The xx, that sort of thing. Tracks like ‘Fields’ ebb and flow with the sort of emotive electronic pop stylings that have become ubiquitous in recent years, though Hirola’s unique trick is to marry these sing-songs with the sort of expansive atmospherics and cavernous bass befitting an act hailing from the same city as Massive Attack. They are also adept at stripping away the drums and leaning heavily on feel, as they do for much of ‘Hollow’.