America may claim rock & roll, but like most of our greatness, it’s an immigrant creation. And non-natives regularly improve it: think Beatles, Stones, Nico and John Cale in the Velvets, Slits, Raincoats, Neu!, Can. Who knows how much Hinds’ off-handed magnificence has to do with their roots as Madrileños, and how much is merely the mystic universal science of group chemistry and spirit?
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Hinds, Spanish Indie-Rockers, Update Golden-Era Slacker-Rock on ‘I Don’t Run’
