After the lauded Heavy Elevator LP, further fabulously crafted, numbers by the witty, articulate, smooth-voiced Edinburgh singer-songwriter, with a set of sensitive, moving and gently humorous songs about patterns of destiny and the future. The title track and album refers to numbers that seem to re-appear in everyday lives, signifying change an direction. There is a Morrissey quality to his wit and style delivery (the earlier solo period…), and Hawk can be just a caustic and cutting such as on the title track (They say the magic word is mortgagе / Imagine, let's sign a Latin life and dеath pledge … Let's nest in an eggshell Darling, my mind's on a living edge), or Money (“Who buys a jacket from a gunmaker? Yeah man I'm sure rhino ivory feels really nice,”) but perhaps he’s best in when it comes to nuance and pathos, such as the superfandom character study on Elvis Look-alike Shadows, with as told from the perspective of an Elvis impersonator who imagine from the TV “he’s winking at me”. Highly accomplished with also lovely guest backing vocals by Anna B Savage on Frontman, and Samantha Crain on Rest & Veneers. Other highlights include Think of Us Kissing, and the longer, more sprawling but beautifully vivid closing track Grey Seals. Out on Post Electric.
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