I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: June 10, 2022] Aldous Harding / H. Hawkline

I saw Aldous Harding at Underground Arts in 2019.  The show was very weird and pretty cool, with Harding being a presence I could not remove my eyes from.

I couldn’t really imagine her at Union Transfer, it is so much bigger.

I didn’t actually enjoy her new album as much as her previous ones and when this show came up, I basically just stayed home.  I just didn’t feel like it.

H. Hawkline is one of those performers that seems to open for a lot of people that I like.  Or at least whose name I see a lot at shows.

I don’t really know that much about him except that he is Welsh and was once a radio and TV presenter (known as Huw Evans).

Hawkline has put out 5 albums, and Picthfork summarizes his career like this

Hawkline began his career with fingerpicking folk on 2010’s A Cup of Salt, but in recent years, he’s steered towards an ornate art-pop sound that draws influence from his fellow countryman Gruff Rhys, who’s brought him on tour, as well as longtime collaborator Cate Le Bon, who produced Milk for Flowers. Even when the songs are steeped in sadness, there’s a McCartney-esque bounce to them: a pitter-patter levity to the piano arrangements in “Milk for Flowers” and “Denver,” a perpetual forward motion to the playful thump of “Plastic Man.”

It’s a good pedigree and in listening to his new album Milk for Flowers, the McCartney comparison is apt.  He could be quite fun live.