Hotly-tipped Cork band Hooray For Humans bring their brazen electro-pop sound to Upstairs at Dolan’s on Friday November 9 to promote their blistering debut album, ‘Safekeeping’.

Tipped by Hot Press magazine as “ones to watch”, the three-piece signed to Limerick independent label Out On A Limb earlier this year – the first new band to do so in nearly three years.

HOORAY FOR HUMANS: See the brazen electro-popsters Upstairs at Dolan’s on Friday, November 9.

“Working with Out On A Limb was the obvious step to make this album. They are a great, hard-working and determined bunch of people. They only put out records that they believe in 100 per cent and I know they are going to work as hard, if not harder than us on this record,” Dave Ahern of Hooray For Humans tells me.

Formed in September 2006, the Cork band includes ex-members of My Remorse, Waiting Room and Fachtra and has a style that blends guitars with synths and electronics. With backgrounds in everything from hardcore to avant-garde minimalism, Hooray For Humans are now a delicious pop outfit who flirt with everything from post-rock to new-wave to electro.

“I think we’re all pretty much into the same kind of music but with the different bands we were in we bring different ideas or methods to the table when we all meet up to practice. Alan was in a metal band, I was in a lo-fi indie band and Aine was in a improve noise band so it’s kind of bizarre that we ended up in a pop band,” says Dave.

“I think we all have pretty similar tastes in music like – Mates of State, Death Cab For Cutie, Radiohead, The Robocop Kraus and so on but then we have genres that we like to keep to ourselves as well. Like, Alan listens to a hell of a lot of metal/grindcore and Aine would listen to more classical music or musicals and I’d listen to cheesy eighties like Phil Collins or Duran Duran,” he bravely admits.

Hooray For Humans’ debut album ‘Safekeeping’ manages to find a blissful counterbalance between emotive lyrics mixed with boy/girl shouty pop, sensitive indietronica, big choruses and fun times. It is the sound of a band enjoying themselves, wanting to make you dance – perfect pop!