First Listen: Hundred Waters, 'The Moon Rang Like A Bell' — npr.org

hide captionHundred Waters' new album, The Moon Rang Like a Bell, comes out May 27. Hundred Waters' new album, The Moon Rang Like a Bell, comes out May 27. It's counter-intuitive, but making deeply emotional music often comes across as a matter of restraint and timing, calculation and manipulation, rather than as an indulgence or purging. All over its darkly shimmering second album, Hundred Waters shows a new ability to pull listeners' strings. Think of musical intensity as an instrument to be mastered — twisted and pulled in different directions, not just dialed up or back. More than the electronics that take a front seat on its second album, The Moon Rang Like a Bell, that intensity is the primary element separating the band's new work from its earlier songs.

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