Hard Love Indies Only

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Available to independent retailers pressed on exclusive coloured vinyl.

Tim Showalters 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 thats constantly on the hunt for the perfect song, and the side thats naked in the desert screaming at the moon. Its about finding a place where neither side is compromised, only elevated.

Drawing from his love of Creation Records, Trojan dub compilations and Janes Addiction and informed by a particularly wild time at Australias 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, its 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 Showalters 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.