A Firmer Hand: Vinyl LP Glasvegas Public Enemy set out to

Public Enemy set out to make the hip hop equivalent to Marvin Gaye's ‘What's Going On’

2025 repress

Seventeen Seconds

some settled down and some still moving

A Firmer Hand: Vinyl LP Glasvegas Public Enemy set out toWriting this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. In a caf just around the corner from his Edinburgh flat, Hamish Hawk is contemplating his extraordinary new record, A Firmer Hand. The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised: I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good.