Single Review: Hamish Anderson – Winter

Howl, the first single from Melbourne native Hamish Anderson’s debut EP, sounds much like its title: a snarling, crashing track, which sits in a hypnotic groove for much of its four minutes. As a rock song, it is effective enough, but as an introduction to Anderson and his various nuances, it’s quite misleading.

Enter Winter. This slow-burning track with its warm, sparse production should find favour at radio, especially in a commercial climate that champions acts like Matt Corby, Boy and Bear and Buffalo Tales: Australian purveyors of sounds that don’t sit too far from Winter.

All it would take is some slight radio interest, followed by a suitable sync, and Anderson – much like Corby, who has proven that audiences will response to this type of slow-burning track – could well find himself with a multi-Platinum single on his hands.