Australian guitarist, singer/songwriter, and producer Hamish Anderson releases the soulful single “Brighter Days,” today! “Overall I hope ‘Brighter Days’ is a song that gives whoever’s listening to it a bit of hope,” says Hamish. “It shows the other side of my album ELECTRIC.” It’s an emotional song that takes inspiration from Al Green, and STAX era soul. “While there’s a lot of blues and rock and roll throughout the album, there is also a lot of soul and this new single really lives in that world.”
As a love letter to the guitar, each song on ELECTRIC “has a nod to guitarists before me.” Early reviews have garnered high praise for ELECTRIC:
“The Melbourne multi-hyphenate has crafted innovative arrangements across 12 tracks of Seventies blues-rock fused with contemporary sounds. Anderson reached a new level of musicality and rollicking bravado.” – Rolling Stone Australia
““Electric is Anderson’s most complete and mature artistic statement to date.” – Glide Magazine
“Electric is a full electric, dense collection of eleven songs with heavy rhythms and groovin’ buildups…” – Americana Highways
ELECTRIC, due October 11, 2024, is Hamish’s third full length album and first in five years. Aptly titled, it’s a hard driving, pulsating banger.
ELECTRIC was cut mostly live as a trio with his touring band (bassist Lauren Stockner and drummer Pete Marin) with appearances by Jessy Green on strings (Foo Fighters) and Jerry Borge on keys (Jonathan Wilson, Ziggy Marley) and finds Hamish sharing production duties with David Davis (The War On Drugs, Lauren Ruth Ward, Miguel). The result is a stellar high-energy album with a clear and unified vision that catches the energetic raw band vibe of ’70s blues rock but updates it with modernized sounds and forward-thinking arrangements across eleven original songs and one cover song.
Hamish reflects, “I’m incredibly proud of ELECTRIC and feel it’s my best work to date – truly representing myself and my musical vision: a mixture of modern blues, rock & roll and soul. Please play it loud!”
