S.D. band plays ‘indie gang rock’

The guys in We All Have Hooks for Hands are throwing themselves into their music.

After securing the release of “The Shape of Energy” on Afternoon Records, everyone in the band took a semester off from college to promote the album and tour for a few months.

Those months are turning into an even longer stretch as the Sioux Falls, S.D., band is looking to head to Europe at the beginning of next year.

We All Have Hooks for Hands describes itself as “indie gang rock,” and its songs are melodic and poppy, sounding a lot like Pains of Being Pure at Heart or Japandroids. The band also sports dueling drummers. Its songs have a driving, danceable mood.

“We started off wanting to make really happy party music, I think. We took it from there and started playing songs that we really liked,” said frontman Eli Show.

“There’s a lot of energy in it, a lot of compositional values and structural weirdness.”

The band recorded “The Shape of Energy” at the Terrarium, a recording studio in Minneapolis, before setting out on various tours this fall and winter.

With the Web allowing easy access to new music and what seems like a deluge of bands touring the country, Show said his group tries to work extra hard to get its music out to people.

“This new wave of becoming a band is really different and really difficult. You’re an Internet band that everyone gets behind like Passion Pit or MGMT, or you’re a touring band that plays and plays and plays,” he said on the phone from Idaho.

“Everybody tours now, and there’s 50 billion bands. ... It seems like the only way to (make it) now is to push as hard as you can and not stop.

“I think we’re pushing through and having a good time,” he added.

Contact the writer: 444-1557, kevin.coffey@owh.com

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