A mix of lo-fi hi-fi, happiness, sadness, playfulness, revolution, dissolusion, candy pop, garage rock, northern soul, psychedelic, brit pop, pre-post punk, moth fuck explosion. A spark of creativity-a fluxus moment--a Happening.
It started off as Matthew Strange writing songs in Chicago, IL., but HAWKEYE formed as a band in Portland, Oregon in the winter of 2009 when Strange Strange started collaborating with Nora Murphy Hughes playing bass, and Jason "Plucky" Anchondo(formerly of the Warlocks and Spindrift) on drums. Travis Hendricks on keyboards, Trevor Greely on rhythm guitar, Sarah Jane McKinley on tambourine and Paul Dillon(Mercury Rev & Silver Rockets) on 12 string electric guitar soon joined, shaping our sound into what is now HAWKEYE.