This is Hank's second release and it is an fun EP focused on the story of a couple and their unique challenges. Hank hopes you like. Check it out!!!
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MALL SWORD 3:180:00/3:18
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Hank Biscuits
Play Hard, Drink Hard
I like booze and drugs, so I play drunken folk punk. I've put out three releases in 2024 and have a new EP due in 2025. I continue to focus on social issues (economic inequality and the trend towards facism in the US) that interest me and I seek to make interesting music with a unique vibe.
I never take myself too seriously and like to make irreverent, humorous songs that still have a point. Please come out to a show and hang out. I always love meeting people, smoking cigs and drinking the night away.
I'm based in Providence RI, and I'm playing shows regularly with other bands in New England and seeking to build the folk and folk punk scene here.
HB's live set all there is to say...
@Daisy Cutter 3/25
Goddamn is right
What a great night, can't wait to get back. Come out to see another upcoming HB show.
Cheers!
Overview of 2024's Music
I’ve put out three records this year, Factory Town, Mall Sword; The Tragic Story of Karen and Chris and a single called Genocide Hoodie.
I would say to date Mall Sword has been the most popular of my releases based on feedback from live performances and streaming data. I made Mall Sword as a response to Factory Town, I wanted to do something that was just fun and a bit irreverent with no real deep message or meaning to any of the songs. They just were fun, and I love the opportunity to tell stories in song form.
I tend to talk in my songs, make weird interjections and statements and this is because I’ve always loved that conversational style of musicians such as Utah Phillips and Kris Kristofferson. Even though these are recorded albums, I still wanted them to have the unpredictable feel of live music. My recording have been accused of being unprofessional or lacking polish, that's certainly true but it is a stylistic choice rather than an inability to appropriately record them. Everything, even punk or folk, sounds so polished, so slick, so robotically timed to a click, or quantized and I want my recordings to sound raw and unpolished.
Factory Town is a fun record, but these songs all have an underlying point of a political or social nature. They come at topics such as loss of our industrial base, the intentional undermining of labor unions, automation of workers and other topics in a strange and I hope humorous way. I liked the idea of this album being old, crusty and lost to time, so I chose to talk about Ronald Regan during certain parts of the album. It is definitely a weird stylistic choice, but I love it and it makes me giggle. Plus, fuck Ronald Regan, may he rot in hell.
Genocide Hoodie was just a take-off of something that was said on Behind the Bastards podcast (Robert Evans you rock) during the Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg episodes. The guest of that episode said the hoodie they give you when you join Facebook is a “Genocide Hoodie”. I loved that idea, so I ran to the basement and wrote a suitably strange song.
There is a lot more to come. I’m working on another album now that I hope to release in early 2025. Come on out to shows, I keep the link shows link on the main page of my website up to date. Thanks for being here, it means a lot to me.