Hearts No Static

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Hearts No Static
Origin Stockholm, Sweden
Genres
InstrumentsDrums, guitar, keyboard, bass, trumpet
Years active2009present
Labels Bureau-B, It's a Trap!
Members
Past membersJens Pettersson (2009-2011)
Website Official site

Hearts No Static is an instrumental post-rock band from Stockholm, Sweden.

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Biography

The band was started in 2009 by John Roger Olsson, Otto Johansson and Jens Pettersson. The music of HNS has been described as post-rock with influences of ambient, drone and minimalism. [1] [2]

On September 17, 2009, the band released the debut EP "The Monthly Noise" on label/news blog It's a Trap! as a free download. [3] The EP was recorded after the debut album "Motif" which was released on November 20, 2009, via the German label Bureau-B. [4]

"Motif" received good reviews in the press in the UK, Germany and Sweden. UK news site MadeLoud.com wrote "Unlike the constant building of Explosions in the Sky, who always seem to be reaching higher towards some epic peak, Motif stays decidedly still. The band carves out a stable location and ventures away from it in tentative excursions, only to retrace their footsteps back to the start once again. Gone is the tension and release formula that so much post-rock relies on, replaced instead by a repetitive cycle that invokes comfort and familiarity." [5]

Alex Woodward at RockARolla Magazine wrote: "For the most part, Hearts No Static avoid the more worthy bombast of their many contemporaries, in favor of an even more beautiful lower key take, with shades of Tortoise and Do Make Say Think's jazz inflections and a subtle, majestic ambient yearning, proving that there's still life in the old post-rock yet." [6]

In 2012 drummer Jens Pettersson quit the band and guitarist John Roger Olsson switched from guitar to drums and Mikko Singh from Will Gambola Sing/Haleiwa was announced as the new guitarist. [7]

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