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Release Date: 28 June 2024
Label: House Anxiety
Packaging Type: Cassette Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060462854141
Description
"For every 10,000 beach-pop bands who mumble their words and dodge purpose there's one Hazel English" DIY.
Hazel English is a 25-year-old Oakland-based artist who makes beautifully blurry indie-pop music powered by transcendent melodies and caked in layers of Californian sunshine and redolent reverb.
She finds herself something of a scene queen amidst the burgeoning jangling happenings of the Bay Area, which count the likes of her producer Jackson Philips aka Day Wave amongst it ranks, as well as kindred spirits like Craft Spells and Hot Flash Heat Wave, to name but a few. Despite the fun being had locally, Hazel describes her music as, "Transportive. It makes you feel like you're in a different place".
A very literal example is the title track, which charters the bittersweet abandon of her runaway journey from her native Australia to her new adopted home in a near-cinematic narrative. She's drawn comparisons to everyone from Alvvays and Pains Of Being Pure At Heart to touring partners Ride, while her soaring, hypnotic, vocal arrangements have been likened to everyone from Grimes to Diiv.
Tracklisting
Abbie Ozard
Hazel English
Abbie Ozard
Genesis Owusu
Bad Boy Chiller Crew
Harvey Sutherland
Hazel English
Hazel English
