ROUND OF APPLAUSE

Since 2020, internal clocks have had to be readjusted with the pace of life ebbing and flowing. For Los Angeles psych-rock sextet Hooveriii (pronounced "Hoover Three") that adjustment seeped its way into their songwriting and ultimately their forthcoming album, A Round of Applause. The record cherrypicks from an array of genres u pop, girl-group ditties, synth-ish keyboards and funk ubut the end result is a cohesive long-player with songs that revolve around the Spanish Inquisition (oStone Mano); or follow othe legendary Peruvians who run long distances in the Andes Mountains (oThe Runnero). oI let my imagination run wild,o Hoover said. Elsewhere on A Round of Applause, the Hooveriii frontman finally recorded a song, oThe Pearl,o that he wrote in 2017. oIt sounds like a Harry Nilsson jingle like to me, a fantasy song,o he continued. oIt's more like a nursery rhyme than a song with an important message. You know, it's just like keeping things fun. a Nilsson didnAEt take everything so fucking seriously. We want to avoid that self-seriousness. We're a bunch of goofy musicians.o