H. Hawkline - In the Pink of Condition (2015)

H Hawkline's third record following 2010’s ‘A Cup Of Salt’ and 2011’s ‘The Strange Uses Of Ox Gall. The album was recorded at Seahorse Sound Studios in LA and produced by fellow émigré and musical maven Cate Le Bon.

Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn) says the record is, “an album of strange pop.”

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..