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A Firmer Hand, 2024
Written by Hamish Hawk, Andrew Pearson, Stefan Maurice and Alex Duthie
This song is more direct and much less florid lyrically than most of the other Hamish songs I've heard and loved. That's both a good and bad thing, depending on your interest. Personally, what I fell in love with immediately upon hearing him was the double-barrel blast of his gorgeous voice and his kaleidoscopic, enigmatic explosion of words. Here, the song is clearly about a love affair that fizzled out. "So goddamn handsome he makes me anxious / He holds my hand through the sad advances / Why wouldn't he though / I'm just the open secret no-one's ever gonna blow." It's at a stately tempo, the vocals dignified and subdued, over synths, another change from his typical baroque sound.
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