Hoan

Montreal post-punk/dreampop group Kurvi Tasch have changed their name to HOAN and just released “Inside Touch”, an excellent and laid-back single that just begs for repeated plays on these summer days. A synth/organ line wanders atop a track that features beautiful, understated harmonies, and some extremely fine bass guitar work. Goes down smooth! -

[...] And then I got a second go at Pop Montreal’s unwritten secret performers, Hoan, who have just unleashed their new EP, Modern Phase.

It was great to see them again in the darkness of Club Lambi, a place where the ceiling is on the cusp of falling on your head, where the walls are raw with plaster and a Nick Carter doppelganger is running around trying to do the sound. But Hoan makes sense with the lights low and vivd, they make sense in the night. And the machinated swirlings of synthetic-affected instrumentation is slowly becoming addictive. I hope you get hooked, too. - Ceilidh Michelle

Introducing Montréal’s Hoan;

Montréal’s HOAN has been cooking up their debut album Modern Phase for release this month and we bring you the single “Inside Touch” that illustrates the the inner glow of reverberated connections. Previously known under the moniker Kurvi Tasch, the group channels their noir-esque qualities from the moody shade of weeping willow shadows to convey emotions that hinge off every note & harmonic hymn. Embracing the richness of all involved audio elements, HOAN creates something that sounds like it could have been a Chris Cohen outtake too emotional to be included on the new album. HOAN hones in the heart of matter pertaining to the most sacred & guarded places of the soul, nerves & heart.

HOAN’s “Inside Touch” takes the listener deep into the subterranean sectors of the self, spirit & mind. From the igniting incidents, moments & inceptions that light the picture show of memories; “Inside Touch” reaches to those special places that can rarely be defined or described where references of time & place are spun around like a derelict compass. Never before has been solitude been painted in such vulnerable & honest tones where every aspect of the track works to convey those odd indentations of memory & the complicated feelings that exist all around painful reflections. - SJIMON GOMPERS