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£23.99 – Indies Only Loser Edition Pearlescent Silver Coloured Vinyl LP
Australian indie-folk duo Luluc (Zoë Randell and Steve Hassett) originally released Dear Hamlyn in Australia in 2008. After her father passed away, Randell re-evaluated her life and came to the conclusion that it was time to focus her energy on music. What resulted was a starkly simple yet dramatically moving work which slowly but surely began to make waves in Australia and beyond. Early advocates and tours with artists like Lucinda Williams, Fleet Foxes, and José Gonzàlez got the band on their way to cult acclaim.
Dear Hamlyn, over the following years, became cherished by fans who had discovered it upon independent release, some of whom were more marquee names in music: like J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr and The National’s Aaron Dessner (who would go on to produce Passerby and appear on Sculptor, the band’s two subsequent albums), and Nick Drake producer Joe Boyd who so taken by Dear Hamlyn, he invited Luluc to feature in his Nick Drake tribute tour, and contribute the tracks “Things Behind The Sun” and “Fly” to the live tribute album, Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake in 2013.
No Depression magazine co-founder Peter Blackstock described Dear Hamlyn as “The most beautiful record I have heard in 10 years”. It was he who put the band in contact with Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman. Poneman was immediately won over. Luluc went on to sign with Sub Pop Records and release the critically acclaimed albums Passerby (2014) and Sculptor (2018).
This re-issue of Dear Hamlyn is the first time it has been available on vinyl.
Tracklisting:
- I Found You
- Little Suitcase
- The Wealthiest Queen
- Black Umbrella
- Body On The Water
- Warm One
- Gillian
- One Day Soon
- Abigail & The Whale (The Blue Queen Of The Deep)
- A Whisper
- My Midnight Special
