Hamish Hawk has announced a new album, Intriguer / Tenderness, which is set for release on April 2 via So Recordings. The follow-up to 2024’s A Firmer Hand is preceded today by two singles, ‘Ice-like Empty’ and the title track. Take a listen below.
“It’s a song that I’m immensely happy with; it was a catharsis, and one that helped me to understand where the album begins and ends, and its thematic limits,” Hawk said of the title track.
The album title alludes to two different sides of Hawk’s personality, as seen reflected in his songs. “Both have been exacerbated by my life performing under my own name,” he explained. “There’s the person on stage and the person off stage; the domestic person and this other larger than life, fired up version of myself.” Tenderness, he feels “in some ways in the face of the performance is kind of diminished by that. The relationship involves lies and deceit and notions of consent and pain and discomfort, triumph and failure, guilt and shame.”
Intriguer / Tenderness Cover Artwork:
Intriguer / Tenderness Tracklist:
1. Isn’t
2. Intriguer/Tenderness
3. Ice-like Empty
4. Ego in Lotus
5. Half of Paris
6. Thirsty Girl
7. Mother of Vinegar
8. Oyster
9. The Tuscan Kind
10. Ashes, and Then Some
