Hal ( Irish Band)

Have you heard about this band before? To me , they sounds like Coldplay and Keane. great music with peaceful vocal. They are not a new band. But , if you haven't heard of them before, their song are worth to listen. Here their music review from myspace:

Twenty something brothers Dave and Paul Allen, offspring of folk musician parents and raiders of their record collection, aren't shy about revealing their love of Sixties/Seventies West Coast sounds. As vocal harmonisers and, respectively, guitarist and bassist of the quartet Hal, they've crafted a charming and disarming debut, which conveys their mastery of sun-baked manners but never merely copies. There's a real joie de vivre to these songs, strong and seductive enough to be both original and timeless.

Having drawn an A&R scramble to Kiliney, south of Dublin, the band may find their blend of overt influences - Van Morrison, The Beach Boys, Spector - drawing initial comparisons to The Thrills of two years ago. But Hal live in their own, Teenage Fanclub-like, geography-irrelevant dreamworld. Dave, whose gorgeous voice is their gearstick, writes with keyboardist Stephen O'Brien in a manner which straddles both the mainstream melodies of a Beautiful South and the grittier edge of a chilled-out Neil Young. He's said he wants the band to evoke indefinable nostalgia, a pining for a nebulous, half-recalled emotion. So whereas The Thrills' second album fizzled commercially because of an increasingly arch knowingness which many found alienating, Hal - perfectionists eschewing irony - keep the envelope taut, the air fresh.

Please Watch them!!!


Worry About the Wind

What A Lovely Dance

I Sat Down