Melbourne’s Hamish Anderson issues a taster for his forthcoming album – a big, unapologetic heavy rock product called Late In The Evening.

Release Date:  31^st March 2023

Label: Self Release

Formats: Digital

Originally from Melbourne, Australia and, since 2014, resident in the USA, guitarist Hamish Anderson has developed quite a reputation for himself.  His signature sound has its roots in the blues, but he’s a willing voyager into loud power-chord territory and he’s equally comfortable when he’s picking out precise licks of the more folky variety.  He’s toured extensively, both in his native Australia and around the US and his CV reads like a Who’s Who of the electric guitar – he’s opened for, amongst others, names as legendary as Los Lobos, Robert Cray, Steve Stills and even BB King, for whom he provided the opening honours on the great man’s last ever live performance.

Late In The Evening is an early taste of the treats to come on Anderson’s forthcoming album, Electric, due for release later in 2024.  Electric will be Anderson’s 3^rd full-length album and follows his previous offerings: Trouble (2016) and Out Of My Head (2019).

Described as “A love letter to the electric guitar,” and drenched in inspiration from guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, Late in the Evening is a feast of distorted guitar magic – the perfect accompaniment, in fact, to Anderson’s John Lennon-referencing vocals.  Hamish’s guitar chugs, growls and wails satisfyingly, the drumbeat is loud, proud and determined and the bass is rock solid.  Indeed, Late in the Evening is a tune that could easily have arisen from that magical period of the mid-late 70s when heavy rock was at its most fulfilling and hadn’t yet sold its soul to shiny metal riffage.  Think of the middle ground between Free and Led Zeppelin and you won’t be far off the mark.

Speaking of the track, Hamish said: “Late In The Evening came out of wanting to create a big unapologetic heavy rock song.  Turning up the fuzz pedal and laying down a seductive groove.  I took everything I was listening to and have been influenced by and mixed it up into something else.  I thought of it as a scene from a film about desire and temptation; set at night and about an attraction leading to seduction between two people.”

Well – that’s a summary that hits home – particularly the bit about the creation of a big, unapologetic, heavy rock song.  Late In The Evening certainly ticks every box in that respect.  On this evidence, Electric promises to be a very interesting album indeed.

Listen to Late in the Evening here:

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