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  HVNLP113Long Player  £13.00

Label

Heavenly

H Hawkline

In The Pink Of Condition

Another day another brilliant new Heavenly signing Although little is known about H Hawkline at this stage international record collector occasional DJ partner and hirsute head Andy Votel divulges that he is 'from a family lineage that comprises of 70's radio DJ's and Welsh Horror movie stars' He continues 'H Hawkline's own place in the limelight often cascades and intertwines with the likes of his close friends Cate Le Bon Sweet Baboo and Gruff Rhys As an adept multiintrumentalist main vein Huw Evans claws his influences from a broad outernational record collection comprising of Faustian Krautrock Welsh Damp Wave Turk Jerk and South American prepunk' An album of 'strange pop' words borrowed from Huw it's a controlled explosion of lazerguided guitar melody think a careering Television show or Pavement outside the original site of Spillers and whip smart bilingual wordplayA  Although reluctant to cite a shopping list's worth of influences Huw nods to two permanent inspirations the maverick US author Richard Brautigan the Hawkline name appropriated from Brautigan's 1974 'gothic western' The Hawkline Monster and a justturnedsolo Paul McCartney Huw namechecks 'Ram' an album coincidentally recorded when the onceandfuture Beatle was also twentynine From the former a wistful ways with words songs constructed as slices of life surrealist observations on the everyday From the latter what else would one ask for other than a just smidgeon of MCCartney's six sense for abundant tumbling melody LP Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download

Tracklist

• 1. Sticky Slithers
  2. Isobelle
  3. Everybody's On
  4. Moons in My Mirror
  5. Rainy Summer
  6. Concrete Colour
  7. Ringfinger
  8. In Love
  9. Dirty Dreams
  10. Moddion
  11. Spooky Dog
  12. Back in Town