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Hawaii Part: II is the first album created by the music group, "Miracle Musical".

The album released 12 seconds past 12 minutes past 12 on December 12, 2012, and has eleven tracks.^[1] The album's "0th track," Variations on a Cloud, has ties to the September eleventh terrorist attacks, confirmed by Joe Hawley.^[2] This song can be dated back to at least the 25th of May 2010, where an instrumental demo can be heard in the video uploaded to the Tally Hall YouTube channel called "Internet Show Outtakes",^[3] when Joe was asked about this he dodged the question.

The album also released with an 8-bit video game titled "Labyrinth",^[4] named after the song Labyrinth from the album and inspired by the music video. The Sound Track for this video game can be found in "Hawaii partii" and the Variations on a Cloud EP.

The demos for this album are in Hawaii: Part II Part II,^[1] Upon its initial release, the album was sold through 'Sellfy'.^[5]However, after some time, the album was moved to being available through the Miracle Musical bandcamp, although only the instrumentals were available for free at first.^[6]

The album is categorised under "World" music on iTunes,^[7] and Bandcamp^[8] however the whole album shifts between genres, including pop, rap, and ballads.

Songs for this album date as far back as 2003 with the song "The Mind Electric", although when being played it was under the name "Inside The Mind Of Simon", though Joe Hawley says that he had the idea for the album in Summer 1997 when he went on holiday to Hawaii with his family, he also says he was inspired by the book "The Secrets and Mysteries of Hawaii: A Call to the Soul". The origin for the penultimate song, "Stranded Lullaby" comes from a song Joe wrote for his at the time girl friend in the early 2000's, repurposed for the album.^[9]

The official Miracle Musical Facebook page has cited Mario Lanza and Phil Hartman (via Bing Crosby) as inspirations for the final song "Dream Sweet In Sea Major", along with Hawaii itself, Alf Clausen and whales. ^[10]

Hawaii Part: II is referenced in a number of Joe Hawley's other works such as his "Crazy F***" ^[11]Music video, his song "Bahamian Rap City" and the music video for his song "Your Mother Is a Basketball"^[12]

For Hawaii: Part II's 12th anniversary, it was removed from all streaming platforms other than TIDAL for the 12 days leading up to December 12.

A video of Joe Hawley performing Stranded Lullaby was posted on the official Miracle Musical website and to Vimeo. The video was titled: Stranded Lullaby「Ghost」 and saw Joe Hawley performing the song as a ghost. This performance was later released on Hawaii: Part II: Part ii.^[13]

On the 13th of December 2014, a music video for the song "Isle unto thyself"^[14] was released on the Miracle Musical Youtube channel.^[15] This music video seems to revolve around a whale that falls in love with an octopus that it gets separated from and whilst running to get to the octopus is chased by other animals, it ends with the octopus and whale swimming off together.

On the 14th of December 2014, a music video for the song "Labyrinth"^[16] was released. It seems to be about a man trapped in an 8-bit Gameboy esque console, however specific details are more up to interpretation. On this same day an official video game developed by (the presumably now defunct) wonderfling studios based on this music video was released as well.

As well on the 14th, an Audio for the cover song Candle on the water was released.^[17] This song was made as a tribute to two Tally Hall fans who tragically died, those being Diem Brown and Treveyln Campbell.

On the 15th of June 2015, a lyric video for the song "The Mind Electric" ^[18] was released. It was a relatively simple lyric video with flashing lights, however it is to be noted that the song is mixed differently than all other versions.

On the 11th of September 2015 a music video for Variations On A Cloud^[19] was uploaded to YouTube. The video is in memoriam to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. The video splices together videos and pictures of the attack, overlaid with pictures and videos of clouds, in greyscale. The vocalists of the song are represented through colourful puppet characters. The video originally had comments of confusion from fans, many not knowing if it was supposed to be a joke or a genuine memoriam; comments were later disabled on the video and all other Miracle Musical videos for unknown reasons. On June 4th 2022, the video for the song was removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines.^[20] As a result, the comments were reactivated on the Miracle Musical YouTube channel.

Miracle Musical has never played live as a full band publicly, possibly because of limitations with how big the band is, or Joe Hawley's declining mental state. To date, there has only been one live performance by Miracle Musical as a whole band, which was sometime in 2014, at Sean Donnelly's private "Seanaroo" Victorian mansion party in Echo Park, but no footage of this had been released. but members of Miracle Musical have played songs from it individually.

Throughout the early 2000's Tally Hall played "The Mind Electric" under the name "Inside The Mind Of Simon" at the Pringry School. They planned to put this track on Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum but they ran into budgetary constrictions.^[21]

On June 23rd 2016, Joe Hawley would perform at Sonic Lunch 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At this performance he would play Variations On A Cloud solo, with the song transitioning to a cover of Jump by Van Halen with the backing track sampling John Lennon's Imagine.^[22]

On the 7th of August 2025, Shane MauX, who was a collaborator on Hawaii: Part II, would play "Labyrinth" live at the Blind Pig. ^[23]

• Joe Hawley recorded his vocals for introduction to the snow outside when it was freezing, using a "Telemarketer-Style" Headset to record.^[24]

• The bridge in Murders interpolates part of "All or Nothing at All", most famously performed by Frank Sinatra.

• In a 2018 livestream, Joe stated that space station level 7's chord progression was influenced by the elevator music in the 1993 PC game "Hell Cab" among other video game tunes. Apparently, Bora "insisted that it was a ladder"^[25]

• The length of the song Dream Sweet In Sea Major being 7 minutes long could be in reference to the 7 minutes the human brain remains active after death.

•The art direction and design for the album cover were led by Joe Hawley, with the cover artwork created by Dan Durda, Joe Hawley, Susan Holoway, and Bora Karaca.^[26] The artwork depicts an ocean with a small island with only two palm trees with a giant angler fish in the distance and a partially translucent stair case to the left.