Hamish Hawk
Edinburgh's Hamish Hawk returns with new single "Angel Numbers", his first new material since 2021's breakthrough LP "Heavy Elevator".
Discussing the latest track Hamish comments: “Angel Numbers is an ode to the life less traditional. It takes a look at the sacrifices we all make in order to feel we belong. It's a song that asks questions of accepted wisdom; it looks for get-out clauses in mortgage contracts and pokes holes in wedding dresses. It lives in the twists and turns in the out of the ordinary. If there's no blueprint for any of this stuff, how are we supposed to know we're doing it right? Are we all just kids in suits?"
Alongside the track comes accompanying video by Hamish Hawk live guitarist and co-writer Andrew Pearson, who makes reference to the religious themes at play, with demons squaring up (and sizing up) to Hamish.
"There’ll be angel numbers, stitches in your wedding dress”
“Who's game for a game of heaven and hell? Jesus and the jezebel?”
"With the video for Angel Numbers" says Andy, "I wanted to capture these two ideas: the biblical and the material. So we have angels and demons, heaven and hell, Jesus and the Jezebel represented by cheap nylon sheets and overly rough seamstresses. It’s a bit Phantom Thread meets Twin Peaks, Project Catwalk meets Ingmar Bergman but I hope it picks up the metaphorical and literal threads in the song as well as emphasising it’s strange, jerky rhythms."
