(3/6/5) 018: Hello Shark - You Were Right
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I was side-swiped once again this morning by the bizarre passing of time, when faced with the idea that Hello Shark's Delicate LP came out some 8 years, all the way back in 2016. My brain couldn't fathom that his most recent record was already nearly a decade old, as ingrained as those songs feel in this world of mine.
Aside from a rarities collection that was released back in 2020, it was with a great embrace that Lincoln Halloran returned this week, then, with a brand new track, delivered with little context or fanfare, as fitting the music itself.
All of which is to say that Halloran has written some of my very favourite 'singer-songwriter' albums, well, ever, and if you need something sad and pretty to spend your day today then I can't recommend diving into his back catalogue. The are shades of Smog/Bill Callahan, perhaps, definitely some Advance Base-esque wryness n' dryness going on; a flick of the tongue that can bring a smile to your corners as the song itself gently prods at your heart.
If you want a couple of start-points I'd recommend joining him in wine-drunk on a hotel roof, fishing for bats in the night sky, alongside clouds wearing make-up, somewhere in the Brooklyn Mountains, or back where it all started, hating this house when it rains.
The new track, 'You Were Right', which is hopefully a small part of something bigger not yet alluded to, is suitably despondent, a country-sway of tender playing and bruised lyrics: "Last night I spent all my check on a carpet, where I slept. Last night you spent it round my neck like a necklace, and I misread it."
Just three-and-a-half minutes in length, but long enough to shift your day and set you off wandering into places old and imagined, blushed and blemished, it's a timely reminder of the way things can sneak out of the shadows and keep us company for, when we didn't even know that was needed.
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