H. Hawkline releases new album 'In The Pink Of Condition'

Recorded at Seahorse Sound Studios in LA and produced by long-time cohort, fellow Welsh émigré and musical maven Cate le Bon, In the Pink Of Condition is H. Hawkline’s 3rd album, following 2010’s A Cup Of Salt and 2011’s The Strange Uses Of Ox Gall.

An album of “strange pop” it’s a controlled explosion of lazer-guided guitar melody - think a careering Television show or an eccentric Pavement - and whip smart bi-lingual wordplay.

Although reluctant to cite a shopping list’s worth of influences, Huw nods to two permanent inspirations – the maverick U.S. author Richard Brautigan (the Hawkline name appropriated from Brautigan’s 1974 ‘gothic western’ The Hawkline Monster) and a just-turned-solo Paul McCartney (Huw namechecks Ram, an album coincidentally recorded when the once-and-future Beatle was also twenty-nine). 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?

Having recently supported Cate Le Bon on her UK tour, H Hawkline has announced detais of a UK tour in February which includes a month long residency at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.