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An experiment with a four-track recorder led him down a path he’d often hoped to traverse, reimagining the doo-wop of sixty years ago both technologically - he’d feed his taped work back into Logic - and thematically, broadening his own horizons by taking influence from the work of artists and writers who express themselves and their experiences genuinely. Sheer Mag, Angel Olsen, Aldous Harding and Shannon and the Clams - particularly Shannon Shaw’s solo album, Shannon in Nashville - provided inspiration as he penned his own lyrics for \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Hunter.\u003c\/i\u003e A drive to widen his literary outlook, meanwhile, led him to books like Chimamanda Ngozi Adich-ie’s Americanah, the spirit of which closing track ‘My Lover, A Strange Her’ is imbued with, and Carson McCullers’ 1940 classic The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, from which the EP takes its name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHemingway's remarkable feat on The Lonely Hunter is bringing together such a diffuse collection of inspirations to produce a group of tracks that feel entirely in his own image; he nods to Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune, John Waters' Role Modelsand Min Jin Lee's Pachinko as crucial texts, whilst the spirit of Orville Peck is palpable in the EP’s haunting country aesthetic - Hemi Hemingway would be very much at home on the stage of Twin Peaks’ Roadhouse. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PNKSLM Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50474892624203,"sku":"1119704","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50474891018571,"sku":"1119960","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b65b6cfa-4612-4214-8f02-480e801a92c9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727439709"},{"product_id":"strangers-again-2","title":"Strangers Again","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the rock'n'roll panache of a dive bar matador and the emotional force of a knife in the guts, Hemi Hemingway makes music that thrills, spills and breaks hearts.     The effortlessly slick New Zealand star has a connoisseur's ear for the finest parts of musical history, sweeping 60s rock, 50s sheen and 80s romanticism into the present day, refurbishing them and refashioning them into something new and fresh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebut LP \"Strangers Again\" is the sound of a starry-eyed dreamer, taking in the shock of meeting destiny head-on, and figuring out their place in the rough and tumble of life. It brings together candle-slow burning ballads, soaring, epic highway rock and thunderous torch songs to soundtrack the sky falling in. 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