Freedom Hawk Post “Take All You Can” Video
We’re less than a month out from the Sept. 23 release date of Freedom Hawk‘s new album, Take All You Can (review here), which will be the band’s second album through Ripple Music after 2018’s Beast Remains (review here). If you’re feeling like it’s been a long wait, I’m inclined to agree.
The circumstances of pressing times are what they are — ah, the means of production! — some delay makes sense, but having been recorded by guitarist Brendan O’Neill and with new material that’s been hanging around at least since lockdown hit, yeah, four years is long enough between Freedom Hawk records. I’ve reviewed the thing, but the band’s blend of straight-ahead, don’t-need-nothing-fancy structures, extra-fancy guitar antics hoisted from out of the NWOBHM, sand-hued groove — you’d call it desert but for the fact that they’re from a town with “beach” in the name — and the occasional touch of psychedelia for flavor is vital and it all seems to come together in the six-minute title-track, “Take All You Can.”
I remain curious as to the meaning behind the title here, or if not the meaning, at least the message. Is it advice? ‘Get what you can and get out?’ Is it a criticism of selfishness? Or maybe just the band telling their audience to dig deep into the songs on the album themselves and get as much as possible out of listening? Could be any, all, or other. I don’t know, and even if I had the chance to interview the band, asking “what does your album title mean?” is about as lame as questions get. Right up there with “who are your influences” and “who plays guitar,” as far as I’m concerned.
So, let’s accept the mystery together as we watch the video, which I think the PR wire refers to as “bold” in no small part because half the band — the guitar half; that’s T.R. Morton and the aforementioned O’Neill — are topless. Whatever the case, the trippy effects suit the song well, and like the material across the album itself, all the visual swirls and dissolves in the clip are rooted in a band-in-room performance. If you’d ask more of Freedom Hawk, you’ve missed the point.
Fresh reminder as we move into the beginning of year-end-list season this record and band are killer.
Enjoy:
Freedom Hawk, “Take All You Can” official video
New album “Take All You Can”
Out September 23rd on Ripple Music
US preorder – https://ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=freedom+hawk
European preorder – https://en.spkr.media/en/Artists/Freedom-Hawk/Freedom-Hawk-Take-All-You-Can.html
Bandcamp – https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/take-all-you-can
East Coast-based heavy rock torchbearers FREEDOM HAWK share a bold and trippy video for their new single “Take All You Can”, the title track of their upcoming sixth studio album on Ripple Music. Get pumped up on the proto-metal frenzy of “Take All You Can” now!
“Take All You Can” was recorded by Brendan O’Neill and the band, mixed by Ian Watts at The Magic Closet Studio and mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs. It will be issued on various vinyl formats, CD and digital through Ripple Music.
FREEDOM HAWK is
TR Morton – Vocals & Guitar
Lenny Hines – Drums
Mark Cave – Bass
Brendan O’Neill – Guitar
