Hype Machine, make way for the coming of listenlisten. Now with the stamp of approval from none other than industry standard Rolling Stone, Hymns From Rhodesia should be getting the nod from every important publication right? Well not necessarily but I certainly expected to see Pitchfork jump on this before Rolling Stone picked up on them. But hey, good music is pervasive and listenlisten has something the world truly needs to hear. Hymns couldn’t have arrived at a more perfect time either- right before the fall of our great civilization? Get ready to cue up the soundtrack to our crumbling economy. Here’s what the Stone said:

“Finally, a band name we can believe in! Mysterious and borderline un-Googleable Houston collective proves expert at putting the ghosts back into Goth-folk. Their upcoming full-length, Hymns from Rhodesia, is a spellbinding collection of country-gospel songs haunted by loneliness and loss. It’s the kind of music cowboys might hear in the distance as they stagger dumbly to their doom. And because they use a bevy of instruments, piling on piano and trumpet and violin, Listenlisten manage to be a four-person group that sounds like a 12-person group.”

Continue reading at Rolling Stone [also our friends at Neon Indian mentioned in article] —>