2021 Contenders: Another Belter!

If Wet Leg (see previous post) are the best new band of 2021, then Hamish Hawk is surely in the running for best new solo artist?

My attention was first captured by his single Calls To Tiree, and my immediate reaction was, "Is this new? No, it can't be. It must be an oldie. Nobody writes stuff like this anymore. But if it's an oldie, how have I never heard it before? I mean, it's brilliant, like a slightly less morose Nick Cave if he hailed from Scotland rather than Australia. And listen to those lyrics!"

(Look, I have nobody to talk to about music, apart from Ben and you guys... and Sam, who I'm doing my best to indoctrinate...  but the point is, I regularly have conversations with just myself like the one above.)

Anyway, on Sunday evening, as I sat down to write this post and tell you how much I loved the above song, I noticed Hamish had released another belter. I knew I was going to love this one based on its title alone: "The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973". And then I heard the opening lines...

To write a cathedral

I'll need a ballpoint pen

It'll sound like Common People

Sung by Christopher Wren

Blimey. I haven't been this excited by a new artist since... well, Wet Let, obviously. But before them... it seems like a looooong time! Damn it if we don't have to wait till September for Hamish's debut album though!

(Oh, and just for Martin, here he is covering Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want. Like I needed any more convincing.)