To celebrate TRASH AESTHETICS' latest release: H.HAWKLINE ‘You Say You Love Me’ // MY SAD CAPTAINS – ‘Little Joanne’ (split single) we are having a very special launch at Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston.

There will be live performances from both MY SAD CAPTAINS (www.mysadcaptains.co.uk) and H.HAWKLINE (www.hhawkline.bandcamp.com) as well as TRASH AESTHETICS DJs till late.

TICKETS: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/136110

Halloween dress strongly advised.

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All about the release:

TA709: H.Hawkline ‘You Say You Love Me’ //
My Sad Captains – ‘Little Joanne’

Trash Aesthetics (Richmond Fontaine, Richard Buckner, Mi Mye, Treecreeper) are thrilled to announce the release of a highly limited split single from two of our favourite acts right now - H.Hawkline and My Sad Captains.

In a world where artists often give away their best music hoping it will buy them a few seconds of interest, and a new albums pile up on your computer for months without meriting a listen, we felt these two songs demanded a different kind of attention. Some music just needs to exist as a 7” single.

These two perfectly-formed pop songs deftly conjure a fictional alternative past, where the musical dialects of 60s garage rock and psychedelia, coexist with the sounds of Malkamus and Gorky's. Both stories carry the bittersweet wisdom parting from a lover can offer a heavy heart, but also share something meditative, universal and euphoric. It could almost be the same protagonist that will “never get enough of hanging round” My Sad Captains' Little Joanne that also sings “I used to only see you there, then I thought I saw you everywhere” to H.Hawkline’s girl who doesn’t love herself.

To make this release truly unique, each copy includes a hand-screened print. My Sad Captains’ Saatchi Gallery exhibited Nick Goss and his brother Phil have designed one while H.Hawkline himself has created the other – each will be strictly limited to 150.

Trash Aesthetics is about getting people to hear things in a different way. Making some records special and precious. Giving other stuff away free. This one’s a keeper.

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All about the artists:

H. Hawkline is a multi-instrumentalist residing in the back streets of Cardiff’s Riverside. Having played with the likes of Cate Le Bon, Richard James, Euros Childs, Sweet Baboo and Islet, he was finally tempted out from the shadows of his musical peers and became a solo artist in his own right.

H.Hawkline’s debut album, ‘A Cup Of Salt’ was met with critical acclaim and a tour supporting Gruff Rhys earlier this year. You Say You Love Me is taken from his superb 2nd album, ‘The Strange Uses Of Ox Gall’ (Shape Records Sept 2011).

hhawkline.bandcamp.com
shaperecords.co.uk
twitter: @h_hawkline

My Sad Captains are Ed Wallis (guitar, keyboards, vocals) Jim Wallis (drums, keyboards, vocals), Nick Goss (guitar, sonics) and Dan Davis (bass). Have performed at SXSW, End of the Road, the Bella Union stage at Hard Rock Calling and The Great Escape, as well as live on 6 Music and XFM. Their 2009 debut album Here & Elsewhere on Stolen Recordings was one of Rough Trade’s Albums of the Month.

My Sad Captains are a band who have grown in both ambition and restraint. This single anticipates the band’s brilliant second LP for Stolen “Fight Less, Win More” set for release on November 7th. Written over the thanksgiving period by the band’s singer and songwriter Ed Wallis in borrowed house in San Francisco, the album was then self-recorded in a barn in the Cornish countryside before posting to Portland to be mixed by the legendary Larry Crane (Sleater-Kinney, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus).