It's clear from the opening seconds of TU FAWNING's debut full length, HEARTS ON HOLD, that there's something very, very different about this Portland, Oregon band. The two note trumpet refrain of ‘Multiply A House' that echoes like the distant sound of a battlefield, the ghostly chanting writhing around it as though in a trance, the funereal drums that boom in the background and the harmonies emerging as the chorus unfurls: these are not the sound of your everyday indie rock act. In fact, nothing on HEARTS ON HOLD is quite like anything you'll recognize, and that's the very reason why its world is so overwhelming, so enticing, so exotic, so addictive.