Concert Review: Hand Habits Shows The Beauty of A Simple Song

Hand Habits was made to play a giant crowd, but you would not think so at first listen. Sonically, they’s music feels destined to be heard while you are alone, quiet, and ready to wonder. Yet, it for this reason that they rocked Brooklyn Steel, and entertained a warehouse full of people with the simple emotionality of music, itself. 

Hand Habits’ music feels like you are holding life in your hand. There it lies, in all its preciousness and fragility, in your grasp, and you have no idea how to move with it in your clutch. They ability to emanate absolute vulnerability with a voice and melody that is just a notch above silence is, in part, why they became the loudest, most visible person in the room. They made everyone come to her or rather feel drawn to a voice that ladders sentiments into its lyrics. From “Flower Glass” to “placeholder,” Hand Habits hushed the crowd; treating her new and old songs like reflectors for the world. 

Hand Habits treats a guitar like an emergency brake; melodies beg you to slow down or, at least, stop to see how you are driving your life. In this world, perhaps, the best strategy to get attention is to do nothing. While everyone contemplates what “spectacular” will catch eyes and ears, Hand Habits has found the way; stand still, sing with a voice that pearls verses, and let your music speak for you. Seeing they perform was like witnessing someone take it all “back to basics.” They became an exemplary reminder that music is enough, and, if you let it, the song will stand alone.

In many ways, Hand Habits is proof that all you need is one person, one moment, and one song to make you think about a lifetime. This artist is like that moment when you find yourself staring at the marble on a counter or blankly dozing into you head as you watch a screen without observing any of its visuals; you appear there, but your mind has left. Songs such as, “Book On How To Change” feel exactly like that; trails of thoughts your mind builds as her voice sighs and whimpers like quiet devastations and revolutions. What I love about they’s verses is that they show there is a deep philosopher/ warrior in every person ; the problem is that they never knows when to come out. For More Information on Hand Habits Click Here.