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UK multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Harkin will release her second solo album Honeymoon Suite on June 17th. Body Clock, the first single from the record, will be streaming on Monday the 21st of March alongside an animated video created by Pastel Castle. Recorded in a one bedroom flat in the depths of UK lockdowns, the songs on Honeymoon Suite are a blend of love, grief, anxiety, resilience, danger, heartbreak and hope. Part pop record, part electronic soundscape, part interior still life, Honeymoon Suite will be released on Hand Mirror, the label Harkin founded in 2019 with her wife, the poet Kate Leah Hewett. The album marks a significant shift for an artist who had previously built a career around collaboration. In addition to her own bands, Harkin has been a touring member of Sleater-Kinney, Wild Beasts, Flock of Dimes, and Kurt Vileand Courtney Barnetts Sea Lice. She performed backing vocals for Dua Lipa on Saturday Night Live. She dueted with comedian Sarah Silverman on ‘Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight’. Her studio work includes contributions to Waxahatchees ‘Out In The Storm’. Outside of the music world, Harkin has composed for Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten and British comedian Josie Long. She even has a Saturday Night Live sketch named after her (Fred Armisens 2016 Harkin Brothers Band).