Mallory Hawk – “Felicity”

We got our first exposure to Malloy Hawk’s solo music last year when the Trace Mountains/Customer/M(h)aol member shared the singles “All Your Troubles” and “Run Until They Catch You.” She’s following up those dark, melancholic indie tracks today with something slightly different. Hawk’s new single “Felicity” pairs an acoustic guitar with a drum machine in a way that makes it feel like a mystic folk-pop song emerging from a DIY demo as if shedding a cocoon. Eventually those acoustic strums are replaced by ominous distorted power chords as Hawk repeatedly sings, “I’ve found your company to be ripe and filling.”