A Storm Is Coming isn´t  that true every time HANDS releases a Greyhound album? Surely you can trust the project´s many years of experience in the sector of hard-hitting rhythm´n´noise, whereas their two preceding success albums have also revealed a knack for enhancing their characteristically unforgiving sound to cover new grounds. On this album, it´s a deep breath of darkness that comes with the 15-track-storm, a menacing account of failed relationships.
Greyhound start off with Burning Bridges and surely they have never ventured that far into using an (almost) melody. And besides, the opener sets a pattern for the entire album: Rather than creating an impermeable, monolithic wall of sound, it works in a duality of versatile, diligently programmed kicks and rhythms set against clearly discernible dark and noisy backgrounds. As a result, the focus shifts from mechanized brutality to emotional distress.
Of course, there´s food for clubs on the way, like the instantly addictive title track, as well as said rhythmic diversity, from straight impact (Escape, Like a Kick in the face) over shuffled beats (Mask) to tribal flavours (Principle). Electro flavour and vocal fragments are to be found in All is Complicated, Your Eyes Say Otherwise, Like A Kick and a swelling dark ambience coming to the fore as the album progresses. And that´s where the circle is closing: Greyhound have convincingly combined their brand rhythm n´ noise with a storyline of deceit and inner struggle, of ways to escape deep disappointment. Take shelter  a storm is coming!