Hauskey - Heartache & LSD: Act II (2022) Hi Res

On Heartache & LSD: Act II, you could possibly draw comparison with fellow Australian Kevin Parker of Tame Impala. A producer, writer, and maverick of intergalactic sound that Andy appreciates greatly. You’ll hear it in the blinding melodies that rain down in abundance, emitting a crimson cosmic glow. Hauskey’s music dials up the rippled grooves, pares them with a sigh and watches as they float away on a musical cloud heading every skyward. It’s future pop with chops. It tells stories, coloured by life’s daily glitches.

Hauskey’s quasi-R&B vocals telling tales on himself, as the song skips along jubilantly to a cocktail of synths and whatever else. For someone who cares so much, it’s all remarkably unselfconscious. It’s got a touch of the Kevin Abstracts and Mac DeMarcos about it perhaps. Pop with purpose, on the 45-degree tilt. It’s already doing fine things back in Australia, with those arbiters of what’s good Triple J having spun it again and again, scattering seeds in every direction as the song now gets introduced far wider than to the motherland.