Fun House

With stark, introspective lyrics and fuller production, Meg Duffy’s latest is a bold foray into poppier sounds. It feels like a fresh start.

Between Meg Duffy's living-room-project debut as Hand Habits (Wildly Idle) and the full-band follow-up (Placeholder), Hand Habits' sound noticeably expanded while remaining textured, intimate, and rooted in folk sensibilities.

With their explosive and adventurous third LP Fun House, Hand Habits strikes an irresistible balance between sorrow and joy.

Fun House, the third album by Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy, who uses they/them pronouns), is undoubtedly their best to date. Though it seems something of an affront to subject Fun House’s artistry to conventional measures or a stack ranking.

Meg Duffy’s latest outing under the Hand Habits moniker is a further kaleidoscopic insight into the mind of an accomplished musician with far more

Hand Habits kept this new record very literally in-house – and it works. Fun House is another step forward from a talented songwriter

Fun House elevates Hand Habits' indie-folk sound and themes of vulnerability and emotional awareness for a work that's fluid, self-examining, and experimental.

Fun House by Hand Habits Album review by Greg Walker. The Sasami Ashworth produced full-length is now available via Saddle Creek Records