LA-based Hand Habits – the moniker of Meg Duffy (they/them) – has released their new album Fun House via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. There is a moment halfway through Fun House where Duffy asks the question, “How many times must I rewind the tape?” It’s a fitting question planted squarely in the middle of a sonically adventurous record concerned largely with making sense and taking stock. How much time must we spend examining our own past in order to fully...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a striking video for ‘Clean Air,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House – out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The song features Dave Hartley from The War On Drugs on bass. them., who premiered the V Haddad directed video today and profiled Duffy, says Fun House “indicates a sea change, not only in its sound, but in how Duffy writes of their pain — now centring compassion, empathy,...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a new single titled ‘Graves’, the latest from their anticipated upcoming album, Fun House, due October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Of the track, Duffy says: “This song is a secret message to myself, a reminder, a conversation with grief and remembrance. A questioning of my own memory and it’s proximity to understanding closure.” While Fun...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a video for ‘No Difference,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House, available for pre-order now and due Oct 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House is Duffy’s most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), announces their new sonically adventurous album Fun House, out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House‘s lead single, ‘Aquamarine‘, is out now, alongside a one shot V Haddad-directed video. “What originally started as a minimally arranged acoustic ballad, ‘Aquamarine’ evolved into the story of certain events in life, what informs my identity, the silence in the questions left unanswered that become the...
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Comprised of two songs, ‘4th of july,’ a simmering swell of chaos and beauty and ‘i believe in you,’ a favorite of Meg Duffy‘s from the Neil Young canon, the EP finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. After cutting their teeth in the upstate New York d.i.y. music scene and several years...
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Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a cover of Neil Young‘s ‘i believe in you,’ the latest from their upcoming dirt EP. dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Last month Hand Habits shared a video...
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Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), announces dirt EP with the release of a video for its lead single ‘4th of july.’ dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Of the song and video, Duffy said “‘4th of...
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LA based artist, Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy) has released their new album placeholder via Milk! Records. Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York, and cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings, carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in-between, and...
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Los Angeles-based artist Hand Habits has shared ‘can’t calm down‘, the latest single from their upcoming album, placeholder, out Friday 1st March. The song features vocal contributions from Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Watch the accompanying video below! Duffy says “this song took the longest lyrically for me to finish. i started it about 3 years ago and kept it in progress throughout different cycles of feeling. ‘ancestral damage’ and learned behaviours and conditioning to react/hold and place certain emotions are...
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