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Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Posted By: delpotro
Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 38:25 minutes | 478 MB
Indie Rock | Label: SO Recordings, Official Digital Download

“Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out.” In a café just around the corner from his Edinburgh flat, Hamish Hawk is contemplating his extraordinary new record, A Firmer Hand. “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.”

At this stage, where only a handful of close associates have heard the finished album, Hawk is still unsure of what the reaction might be from fans, critics, even family. He jokes that A Firmer Hand is the first of his records that his parents might not enjoy. “But the fact that it makes me nervous tells me it was the right thing to do.”

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 A Firmer Hand is the best and boldest record Hamish Hawk has delivered to date. “It’s a bit of a coming of age record,” he says. And a record for the ages.

For fans of Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon and Morrissey.

Tracklist:
1. Juliet as Epithet (2:40)
2. Machiavelli's Room (4:40)
3. Big Cat Tattoos (3:12)
4. Nancy Dearest (3:05)
5. Autobiography of Spy (3:00)
6. You Can Film Me (3:39)
7. Christopher St. (1:33)
8. Men Like Wire (3:16)
9. Questionable Hit (3:42)
10. Disingenuous (2:56)
11. Milk an Ending (2:40)
12. The Hard Won (4:03)

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2024-08-19 15:09:26

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Analyzed: Hamish Hawk / A Firmer Hand
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.10 dB -8.35 dB 2:40 01-Juliet as Epithet
DR4 -0.10 dB -6.11 dB 4:40 02-Machiavelli's Room
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.63 dB 3:12 03-Big Cat Tattoos
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.40 dB 3:05 04-Nancy Dearest
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.50 dB 3:00 05-Autobiography of Spy
DR5 -0.10 dB -5.86 dB 3:39 06-You Can Film Me
DR10 -0.10 dB -12.30 dB 1:33 07-Christopher St.
DR5 -0.10 dB -5.76 dB 3:16 08-Men Like Wire
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.35 dB 3:42 09-Questionable Hit
DR5 -0.10 dB -5.65 dB 2:56 10-Disingenuous
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.17 dB 2:40 11-Milk an Ending
DR5 -0.10 dB -6.57 dB 4:03 12-The Hard Won
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR5

Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1714 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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