We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

For A Ride

by HAWN

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €2 EUR

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 26 Strategic Tape Reserve releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of still waters run deep., Regna Vita, Owl And Monkey Haven, Koppen, Sister Time, Doesn't Remember..., For A Ride, (split), and 18 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €31 EUR or more (50% OFF)

     

  • Limited edition cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Orange C33 audio cassette. Edition of 70.

    Includes unlimited streaming of For A Ride via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
Incident 03:14
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
King 02:50
7.
8.
9.
Frank E. Lee 02:18
10.
11.

about

HAWN's third release, For A Ride, takes us into new territory, perhaps somewhere between no-wave and synth noise. Lee's soulful, agitated vocals chronicle hyper-realistic, darkly-funny narratives which unfold over Craun's heavy, glitched-out synth landscapes – sputtering digital slabs, unexpected zaps and an ever-shifting stereo field – which heighten the sense of disorientation embedded in the lyrics. The conjured atmospheres are somehow both familiar and unsettling, a feeling like trying to return to normalcy in the aftermath of some tragic, inexplicable, and possibly absurd event. While described in the past as a folk band, HAWN pull traditional songwriting ideas to deformed extremes, and in the process, create a crumbling, frightening, beautiful world.

credits

released January 31, 2019

HAWN is two people: John Craun, who plays synth and produces, and Michael Jeffrey Lee, who dances and sings. “For A Ride” was recorded at Thank Tank in New Orleans, LA. All songs Craun/Lee concoctions.

The album is dedicated to Alex Chilton, who, in the last decade of his life, would occasionally appear at the Thai restaurant where Craun and Lee worked to order a Pad Thai, with beef.

license

tags

about

Strategic Tape Reserve Sant Pere De Ribes, Spain

The Strategic Tape Reserve is a fully independent (non-aligned, secular) organization dedicated to the dissemination and responsible management of ferric cassette material and content.

contact / help

Contact Strategic Tape Reserve

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like For A Ride, you may also like: