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The Sickness And the
The Sickness And the

ands Like Houses recently polished off the last leg of their ‘Dissonants’ world
Htour in the UK. Black Velvet interviewed Trenton Woodley before their biggest
headline show to date, which just so happens to be 10,000 miles away from home (Can-
berra, Australia). Read on to find out why the ingredients of Hands Like Houses are
a combination of bravery, hard work, and a healthy mind and body.

oming up on the penultimate date and not a lot of space. I guess with being cycle. That certainly got into my head. I
Cof their world tour, it’s quite clear away from home for an extended period of think that obviously reflects in my mindset
that fans are digging the fired up and pow- time, and a lot of trying to push our band to a degree. I can definitely see that it came
erful collection of tracks on Hands Like through a lot of the second album cycle, we across in the record,” he confesses.
Houses’ most recent album release, ‘Disso- had a great start on the second album, but It’s brave to delay something so antici-
nants’. Trenton reveals where the power of as we got to the end of the record, the pated by a fanbase, but Hands Like Houses
this album came from and why it wasn’t doors weren’t opening as they were before. are devoted to getting things right, despite
originally there at the start of the album We released our second album as our first that they feared it might not have gone their
writing process. was kind of peaking in popularity and way.
“It came from writing with a lot of exter- reach, so we weren’t really familiar with Trenton gives us an idea of how brave
nal pressure as well as time constraints, what it felt like to be on the end of an album they had to be by saying, “I think it was just

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