Hank Heaven by Isaac Namias
“I Wanna Be Your Man” WATCH: https://youtu.be/KnSt3AU1Yjg LISTEN: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/HankHeaven/iwannabeyourman
Welterweight PRE-SAVE: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/HankHeaven/welterweight
(July 16, 2026) - New York City trans nonbinary artist Hank Heaven announces their new EP Welterweight, out August 14th via their new label partner Nice Life Recording Company. Hank’s first body of work at their new label home marks a watershed moment for the burgeoning songwriter. Working with acclaimed producer Phil Weinrobe (Adrienne Lenker, Big Thief), Hank hammered out an earnest, plaintive collection of songs that grapples with love and addiction with the wry sense of humor that can only come from a voice that has experienced it for themselves.
Hank first introduced listeners to this new project with the yearning and frustrated lead single “Thread”, and today, shares new single “I Wanna Be Your Man”. A tenderly plucked meditation on coming to terms with a maturing spirit and falling in love, the new song centers Hank and their guitar with crescendoing swells of strings that roll in and recede with Hank’s melody. The new single is accompanied by a visual, directed by Weston Borg, that mirrors the song’s intimacy, with the camera closely following Hank as they sing the track while walking down Wall St. in a perfectly tailored suit.
Welterweight captures the intimacy of Hank, the person, and Hank, the artist, with an alignment of life and craft. Hank embraced simplicity – getting sober, ridding their apartment of a TV and installing an alarm clock that forced them to do pushups to turn it off. Silencing that outside noise, along with transitioning and fully changing their name, led Hank to writing pointed, direct and slyly humorous snapshots and observations of the 28-year-old’s life to-date. They balance writing pained reflections of mistakes, missed opportunities and lost love like an Orwellian memoir, with the gleaming optimism of a coming-of-age story. Hank is growing up, finding love and finding their own way, and that confidence and optimism channels itself into Welterweight.
Sonically, the project embodies the scrappy storyteller Hank becomes on stage, stripping away the filters, effects and programmed drums of their conceptual 2024 EP Loaded Dice, telling evocative stories of love and addiction through the lens of an out of luck gambler. On Welterweight, Hank and Philip Weinrobe eliminate those comfortable spaces and distractions, recording all the instrumentation and vocals live to harness the imperfections and make each of the project’s six songs feel lived-in and raw, like the words Hank is singing.
Hank first emerged as an in-demand working guitarist, touring the world as a jazz guitarist in various bands before settling in Brooklyn and becoming a go-to session and touring guitarist for Samia, Del Water Gap and Gus Dapperton. Learning from peers led to Hank honing their own songwriting voice, which culminated in their self-explorative first EP Call Me Hank. That unflinching analysis of self, balanced with a wry sense of humor that cut through the confusion, led to Loaded Dice in 2024, which sought to unveil more about Hank’s identity, not only as a young trans songwriter, but a person growing up in the world we’ve been saddled with.
Check out “I Wanna Be Your Man” above, see below for more info on Welterweight and stay tuned for more from Hank Heaven coming soon. | 
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