VIVA HINDS is Hinds’ Sexy, Sarcastic, Charming and Silly Comeback
Four years after their last album, Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote re-emerge as a duo and deliver 10 songs that reaffirm their shared faith in friendship, enabling themselves to find a musical language to express the vibrant, witty spirit that even the loss of half of the band couldn’t diminish.

With VIVA HINDS, Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote have overcome a domino effect of bad fortune to rally for their fourth album together as Hinds. After the release of the Spanish band’s third album, The Prettiest Curse in 2020, the four-piece split with their management team, canceled all their touring arrangements during the pandemic, found themselves without a label, and then—to really test their mettle—their bassist and drummer both dropped out of the band.
Under conditions that might have led any other bands to crumble or desperately recruit last-minute replacements, the Madrid-based Perrote and Cosials reaffirmed their shared faith in friendship, enabling themselves to find the musical language to express the vibrant, witty spirit of Hinds that even the loss of half of the band couldn’t diminish. Perrote and Cosias share guitar and bass duties, while long-time friend and founding member of the Vaccines (and producer for beabadoobee), Pete Robertson, provides the reliably buoyant drums (and production expertise).
Guest features from Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten and Beck fit in perfectly with the party atmosphere of VIVA HINDS, and their brief but energetic collaborations don’t draw the spotlight away from Perrote and Cosials’s songwriting flair. Fans of the band’s 2016 debut album Leave Me Alone and sophomore effort I Don’t Run in 2018 will hear that signature Hinds they’re accustomed to: sweet harmonies, indie-pop jaunty guitar fuzz and a reckless, wry sense of candid humor.