Sam Acchione<\/a>, Hawk traveled to Philadelphia for three- or four-day stretches before deciding to live in the city for a month to bring the project to completion.<\/p>\nWhile making the long drives back to Philadelphia, Hawk took the time to go through the CDs she\u2019d started collecting though her childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI became totally obsessed with Alice in Chains and even Pearl Jam and these things that I interacted with as a kid,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cIt\u2019s just revisiting something as an adult and taking completely new meanings from it \u2026 Alice in Chains are known for doing those really unsettling, beautiful harmonies, and that was something that I quite instinctively just started to utilize on my record.\u201d<\/p>\n
The relationship between the two collaborators was strengthened by their appreciation for rock music, which she said she only shares with a few people.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I saw limits for my songs that maybe he didn\u2019t,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cI knew I wanted bigger textures on certain things and I wanted to have these like full atmospheres and all this kind of stuff, but I just wasn\u2019t exactly sure how to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the process, Hawk said the switch from making demos at home to recording in a studio helped her start to \u201cdream quite bigger\u201d with the initial concepts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just like, \u2018Oh, we can add this kind of percussion,\u2019 or, \u2018We can add in this old organ,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cHaving those possibilities was not something that I was used to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Softer moments on the record like \u201cFour O\u2019Clocks,\u201d a track about her early childhood home that was demolished to build a highway connecting to the military base, are contrasted by songs like \u201cCaretaker,\u201d a punk song with driven amps and guitar solos.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember writing and recording my demo of that song,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cI was just trapped in a tiny little room in my apartment and I was very mad and I was just screaming into my microphone. And then I was just kind of like, \u2018Yeah, that rocks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSuperhighway\u201d was also noted as an \u201coutlier\u201d by Hawk that takes inspiration from a demo she made with her earlier band Customer, turning it from a punk song into a new wave track.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just really obsessed with a lot of Eastern European dark wave at the time and I was ordering cassettes from Russia, and I was just inclined to make a song like that,\u201d Hawk said.<\/p>\n
Overall, the album represents a smorgasbord of influences and aspects of Hawk\u2019s writing that introduces listeners to different directions she hopes to explore.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny to see that stereotype just come to life that I am a girl with an acoustic guitar sometimes and they think that I\u2019m just going to make some folk music, and I don\u2019t,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cI like records that are fun to listen to, I like variety, and I don\u2019t know what my future records are going to sound like either and I think that that is quite thrilling for me as a songwriter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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