Press release -
The Hawkins to release second album on The Sign Records, new single w. Music video out Friday May 8
The Hawkins has joined forces with The Sign Records and will release their second album "Silence is a bomb" the 4th of September 2020 on Digital, CD and Vinyl format. On Friday, May 8, the first single "Roomer" will be out on all digital platforms. For the single, the band has recorded a music video, premiered on Youtube at 10.00 CET.
“This song is essentially about coping with social anxiety by isolation. Sometimes when I’m walking behind people on the street I get stressed up thinking ‘They think that I’m following them’. One day when I was walking home and experiencing this for the hundredth time, the opening phrase for the song came to me. I got home and finished up the song that day. Musically I think I got influenced by listening to alot of Regina Spektor and Crazy Arm during this period, which merged into this playful and energetic song.”
-Johannes Carlsson (Guitars/Lead vocals) on "Roomer"
Full biography and release info below!
Watch the music video (premiered May 8, 10.00 CET) Here
https://youtu.be/xTyAReZVw8k
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With a splendid mix of swing, energy and punk’n’roll The Hawkins delivers rock music at its finest.
Born and raised within a two-square-meter-big Swedish town, the four members have together shared their musical journeys since they plucked their first chords. But the specific journey of The Hawkins started back in March 2013. Inside a huge park of local industries, they have built their own Hawknest. It is within these four walls of carpets and egg cartons where all the blistering creative magic happens.
What if Queen and nitroglycerin had a love child? Well, that would be The Hawkins. These four Swedes will take you on a trip through varying emotional landscapes. At times they sound like a sausage on speed as they sing like a pack of beautiful mynah birds. The contrasts between the deeply dark lyrics and the cheerful energy, is arguably what makes The Hawkins shine the brightest. Another element that really makes their artistry come through is the small but meaningful details; subtle ambient atmospheres and musical themes throughout their music such as ingenuitive vocal melodies, slick guitar parts and groovy rhythmic signatures.
During the first four years The Hawkins kept the ball rolling by releasing EPs and singles while constantly being on the road, playing everything from small venue gigs to some of the biggest festivals in Scandinavia, including Sweden Rock Festival, Metallsvenskan and Peace & Love. They ended the year of 2016 with a huge bang by flying over to Russia to support pop/punk act ”4 Aprils” on a 10 day tour.
The Hawkins debut album “Ain’t Rock N Roll” (released via GAIN/Sony Music) entered the world with a superb bang in October 2017. The album included the single ”Fuck You All I’m Outta Here”, a powerful song with a strong anti-fascist message which quickly gained momentum in the Swedish rock scene, securing the band’s role as one the most promising bands of the country.
To follow up the bands successful release of their debut, The Hawkins started the year of 2018 by going on a 22 day tour across Europe with the fellow Swedish band Corroded. They rocked the stage in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. Since then, The Hawkins has kept rocking and rolling, releasing singles, dealing with broken van- incidents in the overwhelming summer heat of eastern Europe, playing countless gigs and touring in and outside of their home country, and even brewing their own beer - the fresh IPA simply entitled ”Fuck You All I’m Drinking Beer”.
Now in 2020 The Hawkins has partnered up with The Sign Records. They’re finally back with a new album entitled ”Silence is a Bomb”. The album will be released on 4th September, 2020.
Be sure dear friends, foe and Hawkers, it will be a damn good album.
The Hawkins are:
Johannes Carlsson: Guitars/Lead vocals
Mikael Thunborg: Guitars/Backing vocals
Martin Larsson: Bass/Backing vocals
Albin Grill: Drums/Backing vocals
"Silence is a Bomb" will be released on The Sign Records September 4 on Digital, CD, and vinyl format. The physical record is distributed by;
Cargo - Germany, Switzerland and Austria
MVD - North America, Japan, New Zeeland and Australia
Plastic Head - UK & Eire
Sound Pollution - Sweden & Denmark
Border - Norway
Supersounds - Finland
Soundworks - France
Mystic - Poland, Czech Rep, Slovakia and Slovenia
Audioglobe - Italy
Musicworld - Hungary
Wizard - Bulgaria
Suburban - Holland & Belgium
Karonte - Spain & Portugal
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Almost Religious is an independent label group, managing Lövely Records, The Sign Records, Gaphals, Daughters and Sons Records and Religious Vömit. We release music by Swedish and International artists and bands on physical and digital formats and have worked with releases by Hällas, MaidaVale, The Dahmers, MCC, Priest, Honeymoon Disease, and Svartanatt to name a few.
