Hello Shark began when a teenage Lincoln Halloran moved from his home of Massachusetts to Vermont in 2006. He quickly recorded an amateur but heartfelt debut called Book Lungs and began touring the Northeast, slowly building a community web that would stretch to include Owen Ashworth (of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base), Rochester’s Attic Abasement, and the members of Brooklyn collective the Epoch.

In July 2011 he released the album Break Arms – a confessional classic that manages to be melancholy, self-critical, and hopelessly sentimental without hardly ever rising above a quiet murmur. 2013’s follow up HS forgoes the folky fragility of its predecessor for a bolder, more electric sound.

With a knack for making the most crushing verses feel heartwarming, now we are fortunate enough to have his new album Delicate, which recalls both Nick Drake and Leon Russell.

Have a listen to Danny and New Jersey.