Hollow Hand, the Brighton project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, has shared I Turned My Back On The World, the second single from his fourth album Wish Road South, out September 4th via Loose Music / Soundly. It follows Here Are The Tulips, the breezy lead single we covered in June.
Where that first single set the tone, this one is the record’s tender heart. A broken Wurlitzer and drifting synths carry a homesick reverie back through childhood and the Cornish sea — Loaded-era Velvet Underground and Modern Lovers looseness pulled quiet and run through a Brit-folk filter. Kinghorn-Mills directed the video himself.
“When I sing this song I think of the sea, my parents, my brother & sister,” he says. “Cornwall, our orange VW camper van, reading fantasy books & comics with my brother in camp sites. Body boarding in the sea, the salt, the air, the sun going down gently on a Cornish street. If I think about it too hard it seems to make me sad, so instead I let just a little of that into my life when I need it most.”
Wish Road South marks a change in method. Since 2023’s Your Own Adventure, Kinghorn-Mills has played house band for Caitlin Rose, collaborated with Aoife Nessa Frances and supported MJ Lenderman across Europe, coming home wanting to work differently. This time he tracked the songs live with Oliver Newton (drums) and Leo Clarke (bass) at the band’s new Brighton studio. “With three of us being involved from the beginning, and all invested in it together, it feels like a group effort, which is a new thing for us,” he says.
Pre-Order Wish Road South: https://lnk.to/hh-wishroadsouth
Hollow Hand is on the road from September, closing the UK run in Brighton on October 30th.
Tour Dates
Sep 12 London, UK – Rough Trade Denmark Street
Sep 15–19 Nashville, TN – Americanafest
Oct 13 Leeds, UK – Hyde Park Book Club
Oct 14 Sheffield, UK – Delicious Clam
Oct 15 Manchester, UK – YES
Oct 16 Glasgow, UK – The Old Hairdresser’s
Oct 17 North Shields, UK – Three Tanners Bank
Oct 20 London, UK – The Lexington
Oct 21 Bristol, UK – The Louisiana
Oct 22 Newport, UK – Le Pub
Oct 23 St Davids, UK – St Davids City Council Hall
Oct 27 Southampton, UK – Heartbreakers
Oct 28 Margate, UK – Where Else?
Oct 29 Ipswich, UK – The Smokehouse
Oct 30 Brighton, UK – A L P H A B E T