Newly independent and marking their first LP with vocalist Josh Raven, Hands Like Houses did not come to play nice on ATMOSPHERICS. Though they didn’t originally intend to make such a beastly comeback when writing together, the music kept flowing into what naturally became this gigantic 16-track double-album. The Aussie quintet have stripped away the typical album format for this release, with four sections – Tropo(sphere), Strato(sphere), Meso(sphere) and Thermo(sphere) – acting as shiny new portals into fresh creative spaces, where the band metaphorically float around, and let music occur naturally without pressure or a set narrative. With this body of work being so full, towards the last two sections the overall sound at times grows little less exciting. That ...