Bad Hoo is an underground alt rock band who have been making music since 2016. Their music is very chaotic and energy filled. It is very punk, grime, and rock influenced. Bad Hoo actually came up in the underground scene by doing live shows. There are a lot of videos of them on youtube that date as far back as 2018 performing live and one thing you learn from watching these performances is the group has a very high energy style. To me it looks like they are very much a band that is in it to perform live rather than make full fledged albums. 

BUT, let’s look at their most recent album “A Run-in With Worms”. In this short 11 track album Bad Hoo is almost perfectly able to capture that live sound energy in a studio. The theme of the album is very energetic, but also a lot of frustration. In a song titled “Star Strangled Banner”, you can hear that frustration with these lyrics,  “F*ck the stars still shine above us It’s not the end of the world… Glassy-eyed toothless grin swallowing you up in space”. 

What stands out on this album is its balance of frustration and production. To me the band is actually kind of funny with some of the lyrics in the song it reminds me of a protest. With the crazy energy and loud guitar Bad Hoo is just wild. Wild in a good way, wild like a party that’s about to lose control. You are not scared but excited for what’s about to happen. Bad Hoos music doesn’t care about perfection it only cares about the truth and truly expressing how you feel without a care in the world, a very cathartic way of making music. 

In this day and age of music it is rare to find a band like Bad Hoo, a band that thrives off energy and just says what they want to say. With this album Bad Hoo proved to me why they are some of the most exciting “Prospects”, if you can call them that in this underground rock scene in Vancouver. With this album they had a very exciting mix of Chaos and cleverness and I’m very excited to see what this band can do in the future.