Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hank dives into their cool, assured, and achingly unfiltered debut EP ‘Name Me Hank,’ a stunning coming-of-age introduction (produced by Jake Luppen) filled with uncooked ardour and ache, cathartic nation and hypnotic hyperpop. and every little thing in-between.

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Hank’s debut EP is greater than an introduction: It’s the delivery of somebody new.

The venture of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sara L’Abriola, Hank is a moniker and a persona multi function – part-real id and part-alter ego, however all-in the place it counts probably the most: Being unapologetic in music. “I simply wanna play within the pub singing Neil Younger for the Fisherman’s Membership,” they declare within the aptly titled “Name Me Hank,” a heat, shiny voice ringing out over jangling acoustic guitars, digital drum slaps, and woozy, subdued synths. “All of the outdated males are gonna purchase me beers, and inform me all of the issues that they did over time.“

It’s not a scene you see usually in Brooklyn or Manhattan, however it’s one which the artist might need grown up with again of their hometown of Garrison, simply sixty miles north of the town, on the southern fringe of the Hudson Valley. Or maybe it’s a scene plucked from a reminiscence of their time on the street – first as a Django Reinhardt-inspired teenaged swing guitarist, and afterward as a touring multi-instrumentalist for artists like Samia, Gus Dapperton, Overcoats, Del Water Hole, and Hippo Campus.

Sounds, types, and worlds collide within the first thirty seconds of Hank’s mere existence, and it’s right here that we come to know Hank as somebody who’s lived many lives, and is right here to share all of them. Cool, assured, and achingly unfiltered, Name Me Hank is a stunning coming-of-age file filled with uncooked ardour and actual ache, cathartic nation and hypnotic hyperpop. and every little thing in-between.

I simply wanna play within the pub singing Neil Younger
For the fishermans membership
All of the outdated males are gonna purchase me beers
And inform me all of the issues that they did over time.

Suzuki 540 and it bought huge smacked
I set it on hearth and it made me sizzling.

Haven’t had a bank card in 15 years
Paid my ticket and it bought me right here
You may name me Hank yeah
Gamble on a sport each likelihood I get
Consuming Hamm’s and sleeping with myself
You may name me Hank, yeah.

Independently launched June 30, 2023, Name Me Hank (Deluxe) is as invigorating as it’s enthralling. The deluxe model of Hank’s debut EP, initially launched late final fall, provides contemporary shade and nuance to what was already an thrilling best-foot-forward from the burgeoning Brooklyn-based artist.

Hank is L’Abriola’s first official solo venture, and one which immediately units itself aside kind every little thing else they’ve achieved up up to now of their profession. “I’m fairly gender fluid, and I wanted my venture to mirror that,” the artist explains. “My voice is fairly excessive so I needed to decide on a stereotypically manly identify to kind of equal out the gender scale. I don’t know if it labored however that’s how I consider it.”

You may name them Hank.

Working along with Hippo Campus’ frontman Jake Luppen, Hank discovered their voice in tales that bridged actuality and fantasy and songs that blur style traces.

“This file is a group of concepts turned songs that I’ve been accumulating for a really…very very long time,” they inform Atwood Journal. “After I lastly had the help and motivation from the producer, Jake Luppen and a co-writer, Raffaella Meloni, I used to be in a position to end writing and recording these songs which have change into the introduction to Hank. The file offers loads with insecurity, jealousy and guilt and I needed to introduce Hank as somebody who falls sufferer to those feelings but in addition understands when they’re reacting and the way ridiculous a response can get.”

“I needed to launch a deluxe to provide the listener an opportunity to listen to what this EP feels like dwell in addition to showcasing a few of my pals’ skills and types on these tracks. A giant a part of Hank is performing dwell and creating variations of the songs which can be distinctive to that particular efficiency. I believe the dwell variations seize that.”

“That is my first file, so I didn’t know what it was going to be,” they add. “I’ve had these concepts for therefore lengthy that there was extra of selection between each music. As I used to be writing and recording it I noticed particular experiences that affected me probably the most and brought on me to react from insecurity and guilt. I needed to faucet into that.”

Hank describes their file as “nation, craving, and rave” – three phrases that really feel a bit odd when written or learn subsequent to at least one one other, however apply in equal doses to the music.

“I believe it’s essential to not take your self too critically, and I needed to make one thing playful however with an underlying tone that one thing had deeply affected me,” they clarify. “I’d wish to imagine that that is captured within the EP.”

The deluxe EP brings 5 further tracks to the unique five-song file, every a contemporary tackle one of many originals. For instance, the aforementioned opener “Name Me Hank” will get its very personal dwell model that brings out the music’s nation facet, whereas the brooding, heart-on-sleeve electro-pop tune “All for You (Child)” will get a remix courtesy of Nashville’s nickname jos.

These tracks open up the chances of what a Hank music can sound like, whereas increasing the artist’s group and passing the mic to a few of their pals. The most effective instance of that is “Your Ex, Man,” whose authentic model takes the type of a suped-up Neil Younger music: Forlorn balladry meets the angst and agitation of youth because the digital and nation worlds collide, to gorgeous outcomes.

TONY OR TONY’s remix, then again, is a club-ready banger that can get your coronary heart pumping and head bobbing at unreasonably excessive charges of pace. It’s intoxicating.

Whereas every of those tracks deserves your time and a focus, we hold coming again to these first 5 songs that launched us to Hank final November. “Nicely it’s simply what I anticipated, shirt sleeve soaked with tears. Crying on the southbound Amtrak, White Ferrari in my ears,” Hank sings on the emotionally charged “One True Expensive,” a observe that rises from a comfortable, tender piano ballad to a spellbinding, fully-orchestrated enchantment.

Then there are the sage phrases of the EP’s finale, “Guilt Journey,” whose ending guarantees to play on repeat in your thoughts lengthy after the music’s over:

I do know being younger will get outdated quickly
However I’d give it up ’trigger I really like you
Did I disappoint you
You realize I don’t imply to

Hank’s debut is charming and churning, radiant and relentless, passionate and uncooked, feverish and fragile.

Name Me Hank is a singular introduction to an artist’s we’ve solely simply begun to get to know, and that’s the purpose: With their distinctive musical palette and really soul-stirring lyrics, Hank may go actually anyplace and do something from right here. Buckle up, as a result of it’s positive to be a wild trip, and we’re right here for the lengthy haul.

“I hope that individuals can have a look at their very own experiences and permit themselves to really feel affected by them, but in addition discover that lighthearted feeling of acceptance,” Hank shares. “I proceed to see the levity in my very own experiences by the remixes and dwell variations which can be featured on the deluxe.”

Expertise the complete file through our under stream, and peek inside Hank’s Name Me Hank EP with Atwood Journal as they take us track-by-track by the music and lyrics of their deluxe debut!

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Name Me Hank

That is an introduction to Hank but in addition a glimpse right into a fantasy of mine. I like to romanticise small city life and I needed this to be a foundation wherein all the opposite songs exist inside.

All For You (Child)

I didn’t need to be saved to at least one fashion and needed to include extra digital parts into my music. The music explores how Hank offers with rejection and scheming how they may run into somebody they as soon as have been with.  The manufacturing is playful to kind of emphasize how nonsensical Hank’s response is.

One True Expensive

This can be a music about lastly accepting the tip of a relationship and being grateful that it occurred. When this explicit relationship ended, a psychic advised me that this particular person and I had been collectively in previous lives too. It was comforting to know that karma had run its course and personally I believe there needs to be extra songs about that. I don’t know, simply my two cents.

Your Ex, Man

One other playful music explaining actually a horrible expertise. Quite a lot of my music is about insecurity and jealousy and I believe this music explains that but in addition, once more factors out the ridiculousness of a response

Guilt Journey

I really like utilizing vocal results over traditional and pure instrumentals. Guilt Journey is concerning the feeling that you simply’re at all times letting somebody down. Unhappy.

Name Me Hank – Reside

I needed to provide the listener the expertise of a Hank present. When my band performs Name Me Hank it sounds far more nation so I needed to showcase that. Additionally I believe my band rips.

All For You (Child) – nickname jos remix

I didn’t have to elucidate to Jos that All For You was impressed by pop punk however when he despatched me his model I knew he undoubtedly understood that. He additionally performed drums on it too which gave the music a means more durable vibe.

One True Expensive – Reside Acoustic

I used to be canine sitting for my piano tuner who lives in a piano showroom on the time of this. I needed to do a dwell model of One True Expensive as a result of I had by no means been surrounded by that many good pianos in my life. I requested considered one of my favourite musicians, Mike Haldeman to play guitar with me however he opted to play clarinet as an alternative which was even higher.

Your Ex, Man -TONY OR TONY Remix

They snapped on this one. I’ve at all times needed to place considered one of my songs in a  DJ set and now I can. Thanks TONY OR TONY.

Guilt Journey – Reside Acoustic

One other one from canine sitting on the piano showroom. Mike Haldeman performed guitar and interpreted the music superbly.

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