Second full-length album from Brisbane-raised, Stockholm-based indie folkie, Hazlett.  Last Night You Said You Missed Me explores themes of self-preservation, distance, yearning and quiet hope – via a collection of sonic postcards.

Release Date:  12^th September 2025

Label: Nettwerk Music Group

Formats: Vinyl / Digital

BUSY TIMES FOR HAZLETT

Last Night You Said You Missed Me is the second full-length album from Brisbane-raised, Stockholm-based indie-folkie, Hazlett.  He’s been very busy – and pretty successful, too – since he and At The Barrier last crossed paths, back in December 2023, when we lavished praise upon his EP, Goodbye To The Valley Low.  Indeed, Hazlett’s popularity is now such that he can flaunt over a quarter of a billion streams to his name; and not only that – he’s recently accompanied fellow-Aussie singer-songwriter, Vance Joy on a jaunt around the USA and, in July, he played to his biggest-ever UK audience (65,000) when he opened for Noah Kahan at his Hyde Park concert.

And there’s no sign that Hazlett’s current pace is going to be letting up anytime soon.  In November, he sets out on a European Tour that takes in dates in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Ireland, France and the UK.  Full details of the tour can be found here.  These are exciting times for Hazlett!

A COLLECTION OF SONIC POSTCARDS

Hazlett has built quite a reputation for his storytelling, his introspection and the vulnerability he displays in his songs – and Last Night You Said You Missed Me might just be his most intimate and, yes, vulnerable, collection yet.  Told through a collection of sonic postcards, the album blends stripped-back ballads and comforting acoustic textures, exploring themes of self-preservation, distance, yearning, and quiet hope. Each track unfolds like a handwritten letter – raw, honest, and brimming with feeling.

And, speaking of the songs that comprise Last Night You Said You Missed Me, Hazlett says: “This one’s a little different, which I know is cliché to say, but it’s true. I think it would be easier to say after all these years that I’ve found my sound and that’s where I’ll stay. But I think there’s a lack of authenticity in staying the same. When I started this whole thing I wanted anyone who starts to listen to feel like they’re part of this whole thing with me. Growing, trying, and finding pieces of ourselves along the way.”

AS SOFT AND GENTLE AS A FOAM BATH

And listeners to Last Night You Said You Missed Me will get that message right from the very outset.  Opening track, Doing My Best – one of four singles that Hazlett has used to preview the album – is as soft and gentle as a foam bath.  Strummed acoustic guitar and swoops of pedal steel provide the backing and Hazlett’s voice is close, intimate and restrained.  A sonic postcard?  You bet!

A pulsing guitar rhythm provides the drive behind Blue Jean, another song from that batch of preview singles.  The vocal harmonies have a choir-like quality and lull the listener, before the song springs into vibrant life for its “I can never fight for running away” climax.  And we stick with the singles for Mountain of a Memory.  The guitar and vocals both have a spacey sound and the song builds excitingly as Hazlett declares: “I’m a man – not a memory!”  Then, as quickly as it bubbled over, everything calms right back down…

SLOW-BUILDING SONGS

The fulsome vocal harmonies do the heavy lifting in the contemplative Queen Of The Season, before we move into familiar folky territory for the warm, comforting, Fast Like You.  Fingerpicked acoustic guitar provides the pared-back accompaniment to a song that seems to occupy the middle ground between Paul Simon and John Martyn.

A strident drumbeat provides the intro to Tell Me Something, and it’s soon joined by slide guitar as the song picks up pace for the payoff line: “So won’t you tell me something, something I won’t believe.”  Hazlett’s vocals retain their element of introspection but there’s a growing sense that he’s starting to burst out of his shell.  Slow-building songs are a real feature of Last Night You Said You Missed Me and that’s particularly the case for the album’s title track.  It all starts with a single, lightly-strummed acoustic guitar before pedal steel and soft vocal harmonies join the mix.  Then, before you know it, things get distinctly rocky and any listener could be excused for believing that they’d unearthed a lost Crosby, Stills and Nash song.

A SWAY-ALONG FINISH

There’s no shortage of dreamy moments on Last Night You Said You Missed Me and the dreamscape is at its most vivid for the engaging February.  Tidal sounds and an alluring electric guitar motif catch the attention, before a rush of Beach Boy harmonies take over.  But it’s Fleet Foxes, rather than The Beach Boys, that come to mind for the folky I Don’t Want Your Garden.  It’s gentle, but it’s driven, and the Fleet Foxes comparison is most evident during the ecstatic “I don’t want your garden” chorus.

Hazlett saves the best till last.  Lassoo Song is an excellent closing track.  The song follows the well-tried pattern of introspective verse and uplifting chorus but there’s a special something extra here that gives the “Too much time in this place” refrain an anthemic, sway-along quality.  If it hasn’t become one already, I suspect that Lassoo Song is a live-show favourite in the making…

Watch the official video to Doing My Best – the album’s opening track – below:

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