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TRACKLISTING

A1 Joel Hood - Gone
A2 Joel Ho od - While You Were Waiting
B1 Joel Hood - Pissholes in the Snow
B2 Joel Hood - In Turmoil



INFO
Joel Hood makes e scapist Friday night music heard through the haze of a foggy Monday morning. The North Yorkshireman's music transports you straight out of a cold working town a nd drops you into a hazy world of intercontinental sonic voyaging, taking in fra gments of family holidays and adult travel adventures cut and pasted into instru mentals that evoke DJ Shadow, Twin Peaks and The Avalanches stargazing in the mi ddle of nowhere, with Hood's voice weaving between it all.

Already pr ofiled by the Guardian and Music Week plus picking up support from Rob Da Bank a nd BBC6Music, his debut EP for International Feel features four tracks of psyche delic fusion carrying hints of 80s nostalgia amidst hedonistic futurism.
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o Music is certainly taking Joel Hood somewhere else. Last y ear he was working for his builder dad and making music in his Ripon spare room with a borrowed drum machine, a 'crappy' keyboard and the various percussion ins truments his friends brought home from their travels. Out of the window of Hood' s Yorkshire home studio there's a wheat field where you'll find pheasants, owls and sometimes, the odd deer poking its nose through the fence.

o+ An accidental vocalist, with his singing sitting somewhere between a sample, an ins trument and just part of the tropical music landscape he creates, his four track debut EP exercises his love of old audio samples culled from film, radio and Yo uTube. Take EP track 'In Turmoil', which layers a friends American road movie al ong the Pacific coast with his own Yellow Magic OrchestraÚ style synthesizers an d a slowÚburn headÚnod.

o+o As a remixer he's brought his unique musi cal filter to Phoenix, Tythe and Astronauts and released a couple of downloads t hrough Bad Panda before signing an album deal with worldÚ-leading Balearic label International Feel. Expect to be hearing a lot more from Joel Hood in the comin g months with a live show set to be launched in time for this release.

"We've released just about every style of music (cos we're Balearic) except Dreamy Pop....which of course is well Balearic, so here's Joel Hood to bliss y'a ll out" Mark Barrott, International Feel founder