Luxury Bat by Cold Hands Warm Heart

A shallow creek zips past, carrying the products of the morning’s gentle rain down to the fish in the lake below. As we hear the cascading falls, we sense that we are provided for, that we were made for this world. In that moment, you realize that no person could ever make something that approximates this feeling. Or can they?

To highlight the beauty of nature through the artificial tools of human creativity, Australian experimental band Cold Hand Warm Heart crafted their new record Luxury Bat. Airy vocal delivery and slow, deliberate playing ushers in that sense of calm that we find so easily in the natural world. Overall, the record only takes a cautious step forward when that step brings the sound more in tune with the flow of the world, a design philosophy that makes the integration of field samples so seamless as to be nearly unnoticeable. On days when we don’t have the opportunity to hit the trails, spending a moment with a band like Cold Hands Warm Heart brings us back in harmony with the world that so charitably sustains us.