"In Zeiten außerordentlicher Beschissenheit vielleicht genau der Sound und genau die Band, die wir brauchen, um nicht völlig in Hoffnungslosigkeit zu versinken" - Musikexpress
“Es ist faszinierend, wie ein Album voller verrückter Details. versponnener Instrumentierungen und Slacker-Attitüde so homogen daherkommen kann. Die dritte Platte von Mamalarky ist Dream-Pop mit Prog-Kanten, launig wie eine Wildkatze” - Rolling Stone
In making their third record, Hex Key, Mamalarky spent entire seasons hunched over guitars and obscure synthesizers, their long hair sweeping over strings or covering concentrated eyes. The band recorded takes in between the sounds of passing ice cream trucks and yowling stray cats in their LA home studio, a tight but prolific living room. Hex Key is a document of perseverance, of going for the gold while somehow remaining totally aware of one’s own vulnerabilities. These effervescent, swirling songs chronicle vivid desires crashing against real-life limitations but finding a way to keep burning anyway. That tension between anguish and resilience, between performed aloofness and brutal honesty, drives the music, imbues it with a compelling intensity.