Philadelphia-based musician Mallory Hawk shares ‘Four O’Clocks’, the final single from her upcoming debut album Chinook, due 31 July.
‘Four O’Clocks’ is a gentle and nostalgic song that looks back on Hawk’s childhood home, capturing a memory filled with vivid sights, sounds and scents.
“This song is about the house I lived in from ages 6 to 16 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was eventually demolished by the city so they could build a highway that made it easier to get to the Fort Bragg military base from residential areas. Shortly after we moved, a tornado came through and damaged the house, which was really jarring and made us grateful to have left even though we never wanted to. I tried driving back there and got far enough to remember that it’s not even possible to visit or really identify where the house was—it’s a highway exit ramp now.
Mallory Hawk
‘Four o’clocks’ are the flowers that lined the walkway to our front steps. They’re fragrant and magenta, and only bloom from 4 to 8 pm. They were always fresh when I got home from school and the smell just transports me there—it’s such a vivid memory for me, down to the sounds, colors, and textures. I really wanted to just feel the winds and smell the smells of my home and reflect on how far I’d come since then, but the reality is quite drab and anti-climactic.”
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