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Photo credit: Stevie Reinhart

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“there is something special about the group” – Rolling Stone Australia

“a versatile and genre-bending sound that still pays homage to their rock and metal roots” – EARMILK

“Hands Like Houses deserve all the praise we’ve got to offer for this masterpiece of an album” – Hysteria Mag

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Australian rockers Hands Like Houses today usher in a new era, releasing their anthemic first single “Heaven” fronted by the band’s new vocalist Josh Raven. The track comes with the announcement of a four-date tour along the East Coast in early 2024.

Pairing an atmospheric soundscape with heavy riffs, “Heaven” is about the weight of living in our society, highlighting the confusion and polarisation of our generation through religion, culture and politics. It points out how we have forgotten to focus on love and acceptance; instead feeding manipulation, pain and corruption. The track sees frontman Josh unleash a new side to his voice – grittier and more aggressive than his previous sound with Perth band The Faim, who found a devoted audience in Europe after reaching Platinum sales in France.

On their new chapter, Hands Like Houses shared the following statement:“We are thrilled to welcome our new vocalist Josh Raven. The last few years have been tough, and we as a band were all but ready to call it a day. Luckily, we crossed paths with Josh at a pivotal point in our soul searching – ‘Heaven’ was the first song we all worked on together, and the process was really quite magical for all of us. It opened up a wave of inspiration for us to explore new themes and a future for HLH.

We figured rather than lay down and watch the ship slowly sink, we could stand up and find a way forward by bringing new life into the project. For the first time in our career, we are an independent band – so we decided to take a step back and return to the fundamentals of why we started this in the first place… the music. Josh has inserted such a positive shift within us, and together we have rediscovered a deep love for creating, in a positive environment to collaborate and share.

This new era will explore a plethora of sounds and ideas that are inspiring and motivating to us as a collective – we will reopen some of the vaults inside us as we acknowledge and appreciate how we got here. There’ll be riffs, risks, curveballs and ultimately, a shit load of new music in 2024 while we explore our new shape. Thanks for staying the course with us – we look forward to sharing this journey with you.”

To celebrate their grand return, Hands Like Houses will play a small run of headline shows along the East Coast early in 2024 – kicking off with a hometown show in Canberra on March 1, before visiting Brisbane’s Brightside on March 7, Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on March 8 and finishing up at Max Watts in Melbourne on March 10.

Hands Likes Houses inject a fresh dose of modern stadium rock into Australia’s thriving alternative scene. The band has achieved 2 x Top 10 ARIA charting albums, over 130,000 album sales and 130 million Spotify streams. The five-piece – comprised of Josh Raven (vocals), Alexander Pearson (guitar), Joel Tyrrell (bass), Matt Cooper (guitar), Matthew Parkitny (drums) – have thrilled audiences around the world with their dynamic live performances, sharing arena stages with heavyweights such as Bring Me The Horizon and A Day To Remember at home, to performing internationally alongside legendary acts including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper and Disturbed, on Download Festival and Rock on the Range to name a few.

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Hands Like Houses
Heaven Tour

Ticket link

Friday 1 March – Fun Time Pony, Canberra
Thursday 7 March – Brightside, Brisbane
Friday 8 March – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Sunday 10 March – Max Watts, Melbourne

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Hands Like Houses – “Heaven” [Single]
Out now via Cooking Vinyl Australia
Watch / Stream here

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AMNPLIFY – DB