℗ 2024 Fierce Panda Records under exclusive license from So Recordings / Silva Screen Group
| Released | August 16, 2024 |
| Duration | 38m 20s |
| Record Label | Fierce Panda Records |
| Catalogue No. | SOAKED511 |
| Genre | Alternative (Indie Rock) |
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1.1
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Juliet As Epithet
Hamish Hawk |
2:39 | |||
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1.2
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Machiavelli's Room
Hamish Hawk |
4:39 | |||
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1.3
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Big Cat Tattoos
Hamish Hawk |
3:11 | |||
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1.4
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Nancy Dearest
Hamish Hawk |
3:05 | |||
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1.5
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Autobiography Of Spy
Hamish Hawk |
3:00 | |||
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1.6
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You Can Film Me
Hamish Hawk |
3:38 | |||
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1.7
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Christopher St.
Hamish Hawk |
1:33 | |||
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1.8
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Men Like Wire
Hamish Hawk |
3:16 | |||
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1.9
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Questionable Hit EXPLICIT
Hamish Hawk |
3:41 | |||
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1.10
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Disingenuous
Hamish Hawk |
2:56 | |||
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1.11
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Milk An Ending
Hamish Hawk |
2:39 | |||
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1.12
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The Hard Won
Hamish Hawk |
4:03 |
Hamish Hawk's new album follows 2021's breakthrough album Heavy Elevator and 2023's critically-acclaimed Angel Numbers, both sublime and literate records that saw significant plaudits at both press and radio, including - no mean feat for an artist previously self-releasing in the current climate - six singles play-listed at BBC 6 Music.
Of his new album, Hamish says: “Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. 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.”
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.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Fierce Panda Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.10 -0.10 to -0.10 | -9.86 -15.19 to -8.64 | -7.12 -11.60 to -5.40 | 5 4 to 10 | |
| 1 | Juliet As Epithet | -0.10 | -11.30 | -9.0 | 6 |
| 2 | Machiavelli's Room | -0.10 | -9.08 | -6.4 | 4 |
| 3 | Big Cat Tattoos | -0.10 | -9.63 | -6.8 | 5 |
| 4 | Nancy Dearest | -0.10 | -9.39 | -6.8 | 5 |
| 5 | Autobiography Of Spy | -0.10 | -9.44 | -7.3 | 5 |
| 6 | You Can Film Me | -0.10 | -8.86 | -5.7 | 5 |
| 7 | Christopher St. | -0.10 | -15.19 | -11.6 | 10 |
| 8 | Men Like Wire | -0.10 | -8.72 | -5.4 | 5 |
| 9 | Questionable Hit | -0.10 | -9.35 | -7.2 | 5 |
| 10 | Disingenuous | -0.10 | -8.64 | -5.5 | 5 |
| 11 | Milk An Ending | -0.10 | -9.11 | -6.5 | 5 |
| 12 | The Hard Won | -0.10 | -9.58 | -7.2 | 5 |