‘Pick Your Poison’ arrives as the soaring final single ahead of Time Will Kill, self-described as ‘a reckoning’. An album that chronicles the personal pursuit to reclaim control, it’s a decisive shift in perspective from their third album, To Fall Asleep – a tumultuous rollercoaster ride of anxiety, paranoia, and the longing for reconnection. Time Will Kill emerges as a defiant, ground-shaking successor, sharpening HAVVK’s intensity like a storm gathering strength.

‘Pick Your Poison’ explores the divisiveness of current-day discourse; the button-click speed at which we are able to pick a side, while making less and less time to be informed – and the sense of isolation that can result. Matt Harris says: “It feels to me that a lot of social media is full of debate complex issues but doesn’t provide any kind of platform for measured or informative discussion. This song tries to sum up being in that environment and not knowing how to respond in that noise.”

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‘Bad Look’ is another resonant thump in the chest, unpacking how we romanticise a simpler time in life, when memories of flashing parties, crushes and silly fights felt all-consuming, and responsibilities and consequences felt like distant background noise.

Vocalist Julie Havvk says, “We all inevitably paint these memories in potential and poignance, and I think there’s a beauty in trying to rekindle that sense of youth and opportunity, even briefly. The song is about, probably unrealistically, comparing your current life to those memories and asking what can you let go of in order to regain some of that sense of freedom again.”.

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Coming in at one minute and thirty three seconds, ‘On Time’ packs a serious punch, driven forward by a pounding snare and a rousing ascending guitar motif against vocalist Julie Hawk’s piercing sprechgesang vocals. Dropping right ‘on time’ with the New Year and all its proposed resolutions, this weighty and profound release leans into HAVVK’s introspective core, encouraging listeners to turn the lens inward and reassess what matters most.

Julie Hawk says, “This song is about the endless lists of goals and resolutions we make for ourselves, many of which have arbitrary deadlines attached to them. I think the older I get, the more I realise that you have to pick and choose the things and people that you put your energy into, and that there will simply never be enough time to do all of things without it all coming crashing down on you. ‘On Time’ is trying to capture that feeling of being right on the crest of a wave of busyness, the ‘last wave’ where you think surely it will be calm seas after this. But there’s always another and another.”

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‘Take It From Me’ is a takedown of the cartoonish scenarios of men speaking over women and taking credit for their ideas. Front person Julie Hawk elaborates, “while it’s obviously serious, the song is also laughing in the face of these kind of eye- rollable scenes, which we should surely put behind us by now”.

Known for their formidable lives shows and tackling topics such as bodily autonomy, gender expression, and mental health, itʼs been clear from the outset that HAVVK are an act who are unafraid to combine hard-hitting hooks with an equally hard-hitting message.

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‘Expiry’ is about pushing back against the idea that the milestones of your life should be affixed to a certain age, and the joy of realising that you can shake these shackles off once you know they are a social construct.

Lead singer Julie Hough elaborates, “it’s about ageing as gracefully or ungracefully as you want, giving a middle finger to any expectations on how you should dress or behave, and particularly for me, enjoying being in a band and understanding new parts of my personality the older I get”.

Known for their formable lives shows and tackling topics such as bodily autonomy, gender expression, and mental health, itʼs been clear from the outset that HAVVK are an act who are unafraid to combine hard-hitting hooks with an equally hard-hitting message.

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Known for their formable lives shows and tackling topics such as bodily autonomy, gender expression, and mental health, itʼs been clear from the outset that HAVVK are an act who are unafraid to combine hard-hitting hooks with an equally hard-hitting message. ‘Daylight Robbery’ is a song about the safe spaces we create for ourselves, and the exhaustion of feeling scrutinised outside of these boundaries.

Lead singer Julie Hough elaborates, “To us, community is so central to self-expression, but we’re living in a reality where communities and culture are becoming out priced and fragmented, and where people’s identities and bodies are becoming more politicised and up for debate. There is something sacred about having four walls or even an online space in which you feel like home – where you feel like yourself”. ‘Daylight Robbery’ is about the stress and anxiety of seeing these spaces invaded, even spaces that you call your own, and even the temptation to retreat into yourself or to tone yourself down in response.

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