Stream: Hawk Percival and Friends, ‘INTP-T’

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Hawk Percival

Isolation driving you crazy? Not Autumn Percival.

“This song is about my super power, my insatiable need for solitude,” the L.A. singer-songwriter says of “INTP-T,” the new single from Hawk Percival and Friends. “I love being alone and feel safe when I am alone — ‘I Am a Rock’ by Simon and Garfunkel. I wrote this song after a session with my therapist, who told me that she was concerned about my lack of human connection. I wrote this song in response … I’m a lot more open to other people now, but I do prefer being alone.”

The song, the follow-up to her band’s similarly self-searching single “I Might Be Dead,” cops its title from the field of psychology. It’s a personality type assigned to those who reflect fierce independence but exhibit anxiety, moodiness or neuroticism.

Percival name-checks a famous fictional recluse, Boo Radley, in the first verse, and in the chorus acknowledges she’s probably an outlier: “I know it’s weird / Being alone, all the time / But the world is so much / And I feel at home in my mind.”

Musically, “INTP-T” sounds like it’s ringing down the hallways from the classic rock era, owing to Dylan Rodrigue’s lead guitar and Percival’s keyboards. Marcus Hogsta plays bass on the track, and Robert Anderson drums.

Songs of isolation are pretty de rigeur right now, but if you need one that doesn’t wallow, “INTP-T” is it.

||| Stream: “INTP-T”

||| Previously: “I Might Be Dead,” “Low”