A Firmer Hand CD

Edinburgh039s Hamish Hawk returns with the news of his signing to So Recordings and that a new album 34A Firmer Hand34 will follow on August 16th.Hawk039s new album follows 2021039s breakthrough LP 34Heavy Elevator34 and 2023039s criticallyacclaimed 34Angel Numbers34, both sublime and literate records that saw significant plaudits at both press and radio, including no mean feat for an artist previously selfreleasing in the current climate six singles playlisted at BBC 6 Music.Of his new album, Hamish says Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good. The album made so many demands, and I just gave myself over to it.It takes only a couple of listens to be sure that it was a risk worth taking. And just a couple more to determine that 34A Firmer Hand34 is the best and boldest record Hamish Hawk has delivered to date. Its a bit of a coming of age record, he says. And a record for the ages.