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Interview JACK MCBAIN EVERYONE HAS TO SLEEP AND A
LOT OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE SLEEP ISSUES HAVVK are a two piece band based in Dublin, who met in London then lived in Berlin. Julie Hawk, plays bass, sings and writes, Matt Harris plays guitar and also writes. Both of them run the Veta Records label too so it’s pretty much non stop when you’re around these two. They are just about to release their third album, To Fall Asleep, and it copperfastens their commitment to an abrasive, edgy guitar driven sound with lyrics that never shirk from the harsh realities of personal and political freedoms and rights. Jack McBain caught up with Julie and Matt to chat about the new record. So your new album To Fall Asleep comes out on the 15th of March, I would love to know what inspired you whilst making this record? Julie: So the albums got a more intentional theme then some of the previous bodies of work. We’re calling it about sleep and the things that keep you awake at night. It’s definitely inspired by real life experiences with sleep and it really got me thinking about respecting your body and the things that you do during the day that can kind of stay with you and stay in your mind at night and how they can stay in your mind if you’re not respecting that space to actually rest and let your mind recover. That was a personal experience of mine that led to conversations that we were having about life balance and mental health so I think it became this interesting topic because everyone has to sleep and a lot of people experience sleep issues but it can be so different to lots of people. Your last album Levelling was released in 2021 during the pandemic, was the creative process any different this time around, as in recording an album when you can prepare for tours and festival appearances around the release of the album? Matt: We were kind of lucky in many ways with Levelling in terms of the creative process. We did our last recording session the day before lockdown so the mix element was a little bit more remote than it normally is. I don’t think there were drastic changes in terms of what was available to us throughout the creative process but, I think with our other album’s we went into the studio figuring out what we were doing while we were in there whereas I think this time we started with that and it quickly became old. One of the DAVID LYNCH WAS DEFINITELY AN INFLUENCE ON THIS ALBUM PAGE 16