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Released Friday 17th February 2017

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Strand Of Oaks - Hard Love Vinyl LP

Indie Exclusive Stoner Green Swirl Coloured Vinyl Edition. Includes digital download of entire album.

Welcome to Fenland Records! 

Great that you're checking out Strand of Oaks highly anticipated follow up to the marvellous "Heal".

Tim Showalter’s latest release as Strand Of Oaks, ‘Hard Love’, emanates an unabashed, raw and manic energy that embodies both the songs and the songwriter behind them: “For me, there are always two forces at work: the side that’s constantly on the hunt for the perfect song, and the side that’s naked in the desert screaming at the moon. It’s about finding a place where neither side is compromised, only elevated.”


Drawing from his love of Creation Records, Trojan dub compilations and Jane’s Addiction and informed by a particularly wild time at Australia’s Boogie Festival, he sought to create a record that would merge all of these influences while evoking something new and visceral. These influences coupled with an uninhibited and collaborative studio experience moved an initial concept for a singularly feel-good record to something more complex and real.


As much as Showalter wants this record to seem like a party, it’s more than that. It feels like living. “You went away… you went searching… came back tired of looking” is how Showalter begins the title track, a sentiment that epitomizes Showalter’s own mentality in beginning ‘Hard Love’. As the record progresses, so do the themes of dissatisfaction and frustration with love, family, success and aging, both in personal experience and songwriting.

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Track listing

Hard Love


Radio Kids


Everything


Salt Brothers


On The Hill


Cry


Quit It


Rest of It


Taking Acid And Talking With My Brother

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