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No Drama

by Hans Pucket

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Nick C
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Nick C A Fucking Classic from the 03 breathers. Hard and fast like a back yard tarpaulin and a Riccarton hose! Don't sleeep x Favorite track: My Brain Is A Vacant Space.
Keith Pearce
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Keith Pearce Absolutely phenomenal album. Will soon be globally recognized as such. Favorite track: You Must Chill.
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zabi333 It was so good hearing My Brain is a Vacant Space for the first time live, the textures of sound were so well executed! It's so good listening to this recording to be able to appreciate the lyrics, it's the relatable kiwi classic I love of being self deprecating. Tall poppy syndromey XD I'm excited for the album's full release.
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Ema So fantastic to have a recorded version of "Some Good News"!
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This is a pre-order, pre-orders will ship by or before November 4th, 2022. The LP is pressed on Abyss Blue vinyl and includes digital download card.

Wellington, New Zealand four-piece Hans Pucket writes nervy but effortlessly danceable rock songs about feeling bad. Their second full-length album, No Drama, which is out November 4th
via Carpark Records, gleefully captures the all-too-common twenty-something anxieties of talking too much and then being unable to find the right words to say. When frontman Oliver Devlin
sings, “I’m surfing a constant wave of alarm” on the title track, it’s a compass for the other nine tracks. This is inviting and relatable music for people who, despite their best efforts, feel uncomfortable about themselves, the state of the world, and their place in it.
Both lyrically and sonically, No Drama is a departure for Hans Pucket from their 2018 debut Eczema. “I realized I didn’t want to write any more real heartbreak songs,” says Oliver Devlin. “We were and still are a live band. We’re still trying to make music that’s catchy and people can dance to, but also really interesting to us: songs about growing up and finding how you exist in the world.” Songs like “My Brain Is a Vacant Space” with its blistering guitars and ebullient hooks hone in on the feeling that you have nothing to offer while “Bankrupt,” a fuzzed-out punk track, boasts lines like “I don’t know if I’ll always feel like / I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.”
Recorded with the band’s good friend and former tour mate Jonathan Pearce of The Beths at his Auckland studio, No Drama is full of big leaps, immaculate arrangements, and a ton of immediate grooves. “We were very ambitious when we first started recording this,” says bassist Callum Devlin. “Intentionally we left heaps of space in the track so we could add strings and horns. Because we were very measured and quite deliberate with the parts we had. It was a really fun process filling in the gaps.”
No Drama came together over several years and during its creation, the band added multi- instrumentalist Callum Passels, who provided all the horn arrangements on the LP. With Pearce producing, his other Beths bandmates like Benjamin Sinclair added string arrangements while singer Elizabeth Stokes provided backing vocals.
Overall it’s a remarkably eclectic record where the smooth pop of a track like “Kiss the Moon” can coexist perfectly with the Abbey Road freakout of “Some Good News.” “We didn’t want to be afraid of our 15-year-old self’s influences,” says Oliver Devlin.” We really wanted to make an album that teenage us would just be amazed by.”
The result is Hans Pucket’s most sparkling and confident collection yet. While it’s danceable and fun, it’s also a thoughtful exploration of anxiety, a call for empathy in a turbulent time, and a relatable reminder that it’s hard to figure things out.

credits

released November 4, 2022

All songs written by Oliver Devlin
Arranged by Hans Pucket
Horn Arrangements - Callum Passells
String Arrangements - Benjamin Sinclair
Production, Mixing and Engineering by Jonathan Pearce
Additional engineering and production Oliver Devlin
Mastered by Bevan Smith

Artwork by Callum Devlin
Additional car manufacturing by Benjamin Sinclair

Hans Pucket are:
Oliver Devlin - Guitar, Vocals, Backing Vocals, piano on 5, 9
Callum Devlin - Bass, BVs, Rhythm Guitar on 6, Percussion on 9
Jonathan Nott - Drums, Percussion on 4, 9, Synth on 1, Rhythm Guitar on 6, Guitar solo on 11
Callum Passells - Sax on 2,3,7 Bass Clarinet 4,7, synth on 9

Jonathan Pearce - Slide guitar on 6, Wurlitzer on 7, Perc on 1, 2, Synth on 9
Jonathan Shirley, Laura Robinson, Sophie Scott-Maunder - Claps on 4
Benjamin Sinclair - Clarinet on 5
JY Jong-Yun Lee - Flute on 3
Elizabeth Stokes, Chelsea Prastiti - BVs on 4

Horns Pucket on 2,4,7,10
Callum Passells - Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet
Henry Swanson - French Horn
Sean Martin-Buss - Tenor Sax
Ro Rushton-Green - Bari Sax

Hans Plucket on 4 & 5:
Milena Parobczy - Violin
Miyo Yoon - Violin
Helen Bevin - Viola
Kathleen Tomacruz - cello

Hans Pucket would like to thank:

Samuel Austin, Amanda Cheng, Matthew Crawley, Chris Cudby, Neil Finn, Abe Hollingsworth, Bob Frisbee, Finn Johannsson, Annabel Kean, Oscar Keys, Gussie Larkin, JY Jong-Yun Lee, Ben Locke, Taylor Macgregor, Alex Mathews, Eleanor Merton, Alicia Mendez, James Milne, Chelsea Prastiti, Ezra Simmons, Anthony Metcalf, David Parker, Mark Perkins, Adam Tobeck, Lily Paris West, Liz Stokes, Jon Pearce, Ben Sinclair and Tristan Deck, Todd, Steph, Alec, Beth, Rob and Carpark Records. Our families, our friends & everyone we forgot. We love you very much. xxoo

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