Hazel English is very excited to share her first new music since 2017, with the sixties imbued power-pop prowess of ‘Shaking’.
The Australia-born, US-based musician made an almost perfect introduction with a series of heavy-hitting singles culminating in a double-whammy of EP releases in the form of Never Going Home / Just Give In back in 2017. It was the sound of a young musician with an innate ear for melody and an eye for something bigger than the venues she was playing. Aurally, it was deliriously colourful old-school dream-pop that slinked and fizzed, hook-fronted and awash with tones and textures. Although there were tones of lo-fi scratchiness to those recordings, there was something much more stereophonic sounding in Hazel’s output.
PRAISE FOR HAZEL ENGLISH
“[on ‘Shaking’]…She’s upped the dreamy, shimmering groove.”
Declan Byrne, triple j
““Shaking” strikes right at the heart of ’60s psychedelia. Its ridiculously catchy core melody feels fresh while retaining a retrospective sensibility.”
Stereogum
‘”Shaking’ distances itself from English’s debut EP, Just Give In / Never Going Home, with a more grandiose sonic palette than its predecessor.”
Paste
‘Shaking’, debuting today with a video directed by Erin S. Murray, sidesteps that shoegazey-fuzz and hits on something more direct and substantial. If the early EPs were painted with pastels, ‘Shaking’ launches Hazel English’s return in glorious technicolour. It was written alongside Blake Stranathan and produced by LA’s Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, Charli XCX). If LA is now Hazel’s adopted home, ‘Shaking’ sounds like it’s got the Californian sunshine coursing through its veins on a drip.
“There is a lot more I am trying to explore under the surface that I hope people notice.” Hazel explains in reference to the new track. “I feel like I’m on this continual journey of figuring out what I truly believe and separating it from the false and toxic ideas I was taught about myself and the world throughout my life. I hope I can inspire others to also search for their inner truth and find their own inner strength in the process.”
