What the debut album from all-female Spanish quartet Hinds – known as Deers until a year ago – might lack in sophistication is more than made up for with charm. Their modus operandi is shambling, unhurried garage rock projected through a lo-fi filter and topped with ragged harmonising. In the age of Auto-Tune, there’s a freshness to this ramshackle approach, even as the likes of Fat Calmed Kiddos and San Diego threaten to collapse in on themselves. They peak with the surf-influenced Warts, which sounds like nothing so much as a riot grrrl take on Bossanova-era Pixies. Elsewhere, the meandering lack of focus can grate, as on forgettable instrumental Solar Gap.
