Congratulations Join Hands (Random Blue, Red, Green, Yellow)

Join Hands is a kitchen-sink fuzz-pop clusterfuck party record, the debut album from Brighton's colourful alt-rock 4-piece congratulations.
Leah Stanhope's formidable vocal performances can turn on a dime from spectrally angelic to hellish, and James Gillingham's turn on the tubs combines featherweight intricacies with sledgehammer force. Shameless pop melodies fight with Jamie's jagged wonked guitars, Greg's thick fuzz bass rumble, crunched electronic beats and a smorgasbord of mangled synths and samples relatively new to the band's sonic palette. These muscular songs take control of the band and wilfully steer them off on sharp tangents (Nevagunna's blown out sax invasion, This Life's this-thing's- broken ending, Bubbles's Bollywood excursion).
With composition taking place over several years, the bulk of the record tracking was done in a single week to capture the pace and immediacy of the band's rapturously received live shows. Then began a lengthy tinkering process, with producer Luke Phillips (Icebeing) on board to add power and spice treatments to the recordings and complete mixing on the album, tying the whole thing together with a big green/blue/ red/yellow (take your pick) bow.