Hawk Moth Records

Four weeks after the devastating suicide of my sister, I locked myself in my shed for four days and wrote and recorded these songs on my 8-track as both tribute and therapy. I've had death close to me before and here I was again. Anyway I went on a songwriting bender, shit just came pouring out of me and I was drinking and crying and smoking in the middle of the night while I was mixing it and in some songs the shed door is slamming because I forgot to lock it. Lo-fi...

I wanted the songs to tell the story of the two weeks between getting a phone call at work and letting go black helium balloons at the funeral. All the emotions that had gone through me and the people around me in those two weeks. 

You can listen to the record here:
https://watermusic.bandcamp.com/album/ships

Then I thought I'd get it onto vinyl, make this count, make it permanent and make it a lasting tribute to my beautiful sister and something that I, and hopefully others, would cherish forever. I want to engrave her name on the vinyl and use one of her paintings as the record label. My beautiful friend Leif Nash donated his amazing image as the cover. I want to get closure and make a gift at the same time. My friends at the ever awesome Pirate Press have offered to help me with some of the costs. They're fucking awesome and I'd like that to happen but I'm actually pretty screwed financially after all this funeral - not work for two months business so I've set this page up as a pre-order to see if maybe I could sell enough up front to make it happen.

No fancy pants gimmicks, just pre-order. If we hit target, we make record, if not, we don't and contributors get their bucks back. 

I've got no idea if I can sell enough records. 
But it's worth a shot. 

Matty Barker x

All proceeds will simply be used to press and print the album. 250 copies is the minimum amount of copies we can get pressed. This figure covers that and the cost of mastering my back yard recorded WAV files to be ready for vinyl.

If we go over the target, that helps with all the shipping and the costs of printing more Hawk Moth tees.