William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk will now be available on

will now be available on standalone CD & vinyl and digitally for the first time

there comes a point when the veil of mystique must be fully lifted

Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass

especially on electro pop stunners ‘Magical’ and ‘Before The Dawn’

galloping drums and a vocal take that is both caramel smooth but also fervently intense

William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk will now be available onThis is a Record Store Day 2021 release. The concept of vanitas in medieval art refers to the juxtaposition of macabre symbols of death with material ephemera in order to illustrate the impermanence of earthly things. What struck me about this was not the representation of death in a macabre morbid way, but rather that very sense of ephemerality and impermanence. Reading an article about the history of ephemera in art led me to the concept of vanitas,