Animal hands is an indie rock band formed by singer songwriter Danielle Whalebone in 2011. Animal Hands celebrated the release of the bands debut EP at Cherry Bar in April 2013. Their self titled EP produced by Lindsay Gravina (Rowland.S Howard,Cosmic Psychos, Magic Dirt ) has received a resplendent response gaining reviews and airplay in Australia and across the world. Allie Speers writer for Tone Deaf has described "The self-titled EP of Melbourne based Animal Hands as pleasing to the ear. The garagey, grunge sounds in juxtaposition to front woman Danielle Whalebone’s crooning vocals is a great combination. ‘Defiance’, the inaugural track has a great introduction, just a simple guitar riff that leads into a really neat track. It’s a clever start to the EP, you can really feel what the band are trying to achieve."\r Danielle's vision is influenced by the female fronted bands that were affiliated with the underground feminist rock movement in the early nineties. The movement embraced the diversity of feminist ideologies, maintaing a focus on female expression. UK's Music Beacon states "they pull it off spectacularly, and considering the band only formed in 2011, they have covered a lot of ground very quickly. Finding their sound, recording an EP and having it ready for release in under two years is a very impressive accomplishment" \r Machine Steve writer for UK based magazine The Black Flag has described Animal Hands as “pure grunge, with it’s slow cumbersome riffs and weary vocals beautifully stitched together to create an ambience that, in my humble opinion, has been missing from the music scene for well over a decade.”\r It seems Animal Hands is apart of the reemergence of a sound that defined a generation in the 90‘s Erin Lawler writer for ‘The Dwarf’ reminisces "Australian grunge in the ‘90s was a precious thing. But its absence has been felt by many in the Australian music scene while indie-pop becomes less catchy and more repetitive. Animal Hands is a band that has enough balls to bring back the grunge, fronted by Danielle Whalebone, a woman with all the strength and grace of Adalita Srsen of Magic Dirt. All of the songs on their self-titled EP sound like they belong on the soundtrack to Secret Life of Us, which I hope you know is a good thing. Those were the days." Danielle has directed and co-edited three Animal Hands film clips over the past year and the band look forward to the release of their next single in August this year.