Hans Pucket Share New Album 'No Drama'

Here's a brain-teaser for your next Christmas cracker: "which kiwi four-piece includes twin brothers and two members named Callum, plus a drummer named Jono?" The answer is of course Hans Pucket, aka Oliver and Callum Devlin (Sports Team, Dateline), Jono Nott (Onono, Broods), and Callum Passells, whose new album No Drama is out at last today, produced by Jonathan Pearce of The Beths and released via influential US imprint Carpark Records. Hans Pucket find universality in moments of vulnerability, then clamp those scary / weird feelings onto a ridiculously catchy pileup of zippy hooks, lush melodic arrangements and infectious grooves that sneakily creep under your skin — until the words "No Drama" endlessly echo in your mind as you lonesomely roam through an empty downtown shopping mall, while still trying to shake off Sunday's hangover.

Hans Pucket's ever-expanding fanbase will soon be singing loudly "You Must Chill" as the band are jetting off for rapidly selling out North American shows in support of The Beths — whose singer Elizabeth Stokes contributes backing vocals on the new album — but before they head away, the Trash Recital stars are playing two special release parties in Tāmaki Makaurau and Pōneke [full disclosure: I'm performing at Sunday's show]. It's well and truly Hans Pucket Day in the UTR office, enjoy the abundance of insta-classics to be found on their second studio long player and go catch them this weekend...

“People say ‘no drama’ all the time when they really mean at least, 'some drama,'... It works because No Drama is actually a super dramatic record.” — Callum Devlin

Hans Pucket 'No Drama' Album Release Party Weekend

Saturday 5th November - Vogelmorn Hall, Wellington w/ Vera Ellen, shannengeorgiapetersen (all ages)
Sunday 6th November - The Tuning Fork, Auckland w/ SKILAA, Power Nap (all ages)*

Wellington tickets available HERE via UTR
*Auckland tickets available via moshtix

'No Drama' is out today via Carpark Records — order the vinyl LP edition of No Drama HERE, plus exclusive Flying Out colourway HERE.