You & I

Debuting on Speak n Spell Records in 2006 with the Shaky Hands EP, Cut Off Your Hands quickly set stages and airwaves on fire. With nationwide billing on 2007's Laneway Festival and jaunts to LA, SXSW and New York it was, tellingly, the band's first visit to London that proved to be their watershed moment. Having been bewitched by the band in Texas, the lovesick indie-maven Steve Lamacq (hosting John Peel's old show on BBC6) wasted no time in pulling them into his Maida Vale studios. It was also in London that the group found themselves working with ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler on their second EP, BLUE ON BLUE. Now based in Hackney, London, the band have put the final coat on their debut LP YOU AND I, with Butler once again at the helm. With such an amazing album waiting in the wings, Cut Off Your Hands couldn't be set in a better position to win over the World's hearts.