Hamish Hawk will release new album ‘A Firmer Hand’ on August 16th.
The idiosyncratic Scottish talent has a real way with words, combining this with melodies that seem to seep under your skin. New album ‘A Firmer Hand’ continues his creative run, and it lands this summer via So Recordings.
Out on August 16th, it will be accompanied by a summer of live activity – catch him this Bank Holiday weekend at Stag & Dagger in Glasgow and Edinburgh, alongside other festival dates.
New single ‘Big Cat Tattoos’ leads you into his fresh realm, with Hamish Hawk’s acerbic lyrical flair making for fascinating listening.
Of the single, he comments…
‘Big Cat Tattoos’ is just one of the great unsaids that make up the new record, and it’s the birthplace of the album’s title: ‘A Firmer Hand’. Unknowingly I’d been building up an ugly arsenal of great unsaids over the past few years, and the album became a place I could offload them, and with any luck put them to rest.
I tried to avoid cleaning things up at the time of writing, I cornered myself into a warts-and-all approach. But don’t be fooled, ‘Big Cat Tattoos’ is all talk. Our hero gets a few barbs in nice and early, and lands a couple of clumsy jabs, but in the end we’re witness to nothing more than a petty diatribe. It’s embittered, unbecoming and wholly embarrassing. It does have a certain get-up-and-go, though.
Tune in now.
Related: In Conversation – Hamish Hawk
Photo Credit: Michaela Simpson
