Description
On the flip side of the days of northern darkness are the endless sub-Arctic summer nights, where the midnight sun never sets and Finnish nightlife is brilliantly illuminated. Here happiness has a deeper meaning. This is where Finland's Death Hawks have spread their unique wings, phoenix-like, on their fourth full-length album Psychic Harmony.
Stemming from a rich foundation of euphoric stage shows that has seen the band electrify and joyously anaesthetise their audiences at home and abroad over the years since their inception in 2011, with luxurious synths, psych-blues and climactic jazz sections, this is the quartet's bravest and most eclectic trip into the unknown so far.If The Line Of Best Fit called their second album " An uncommonly brave and successful reinvention," Psychic Harmony takes Death Hawks into the next stratosphere.
Among the top 10 finalists for the Nordic Music Prize in 2013 and nominated for a Finnish Emma award in 2014, Death Hawks have been close to the hearts of industry critics and fans alike for many years now, for their ecstatic live sets and entrancing harmonies. Cutting their teeth touring with bands such as Circle, relentlessly honing themselves as transcendent spirit-guides of deep psych rock, their new album sees Death Hawks take that mantle and bravely head out into uncharted waters.As if Sophia Coppola got high with Wes Anderson on the Finnish archipelago in late summer, with the cerebral futurism of their nordic disco countryman Jori Hulkkonen remixing Piirpauke or Wigwam as their soundtrack, Psychic Harmony is a journey into the meaning of euphonic connection itself. It's boldly cinematic, but their soundscape movie is a genre crash of beautiful alienation, stranded on a desert paradise full of surreal life-forms. Featuring guest appearances by Pekko Kappi on bowed lyre and violin, and lush vocals by Nicole Willis on I Am A Tree, Psychic Harmony is an opulent vista.Spinning out under the mirrorball, the album coolly references modern acts like Thundercat, The Seshen, Feve
