Hemi Hemingway | The Lonely Hunter | Yellow | Vinyl LP -

Shaun Blackwell had been tip-toeing around the idea of a solo project like this one for a while - hinting at this sound through the various prisms of different bands. Only last year, though, did he finally put an array of other musical outlets on the back burner in order to work towards what would become The Lonely Hunter. A glittering six-track ode to sixties pop, it takes its cues from both classic and contemporary influences, and embraces the timeless lovesickness of The Ronettes, The Shirelles and The Shangri-Las - subtly subverting it to focus on modern relationships, masculinity, and his own roots as a New Zealander. As Hemi Hemingway, he\u2019s part heart-broken crooner, part emotional explorer. An experiment with a four-track recorder led him down a path he\u2019d often hoped to traverse, reimagining the doo-wop of sixty years ago both technologically - he\u2019d feed his taped work back into Logic - and thematically, broadening his own horizons by taking influence from the w.