Since 2020, internal clocks have had to be readjusted with the pace of life ebbing and flowing. For Los Angeles psych-rock sextet Hooveriii (pronounced ""Hoover Three"") that adjustment seeped it's way into their songwriting and ultimately their forthcoming album, A Round of Applause. The record cherrypicks from an array of genres - pop, girl-group ditties, synth-ish keyboards and funk -but the end result is a cohesive long-player with songs that revolve around the Spanish Inquisition (""Stone Man""); or follow ""the legendary Peruvians who run long distances in the Andes Mountains (""The Runner""). ""I let my imagination run wild,"" Hoover said. Elsewhere on A Round of Applause, the Hooveriii frontman finally recorded a song, ""The Pearl,"" that he wrote in 2017. ""It sounds like a Harry Nilsson jingle like to me, a fantasy song,"" he continued. ""It's more like a nursery rhyme than a song with an important message. You know, it's just like keeping things fun.... Nilsson didn't take everything so fucking seriously. We want to avoid that self-seriousness. We're a bunch of goofy musicians.""
