Artist ....... Hills
Album ........ Frid
Genre ........ Psychedelic Rock
Source ....... CDDA
Label ........ Rocket Records
Catalog Nr. .. LAUNCH079
Release Date . Dec-18-2015
Tracks ....... 06
Length ....... 37:00
Quality ...... 44,1
Mode ......... Joint Stereo
Encoder ...... LAME 3.98.4 -V0
Size ......... 67,39 MB
Link ......... http://rocketrecordings.blogspot.se/
Rls Notes
Third-eye visionaries Hills present their third opus, a dizzying
journey that traverses through the band's origins and beyond to new
dimensions. The Gothenburg, Sweden-based band have released two full-
length albums since forming in 2006, the second of which, 2011's
Master Sleeps, saw a vinyl outing on Rocket in 2013 (LAUNCH 061LP).
Part of a rich local scene that also includes friends and Rocket
Recordings label-mates Goat, they form the next chapter in a tradition
of Swedish Psychedelia that found it's origins in late-'60s and
early-'70s freakouts and mind-melts by the likes of Baby Grandmothers
and Algarnas Tradgard - not to mention the unholy trinity of Parson
Sound, International Harvester, and Trad, Gras och Stenar - before
being developed by the likes of The Spacious Mind and Dungen around
the turn of the millennium. These inspirations make their mark on Frid
by journeying inward, via mantric repetition and hip-shaking
pulsations; as on the ten-minute monolith Och Solen Sankte Sig Rod,
yet they can also lurch into the unknown via the fuzz/wah odysseys of
the aptly-monikered National Drone and the ceremonial exhortations of
the closing Death Will Find a Way. As they also showed at a rare and
spellbinding appearance at the 2014 Liverpool International Festival
of Psychedelia, Hills have landed on a rich and intoxicating sound
that sidesteps the clichΘs and humdrum stylistic foibles that often
plague modern-day psych, and, in the process, breathed new life into
an approach that can sometimes seem in danger of appearing redundant
through lack of imagination. Frid crystallizes everything that makes
these Scandinavian satyrs stand out from the global herd: adventurous
experimentation and fearless hallucinatory intensity, rendered with
brass-knuckle fortitude. The end result is 38 minutes that translate
into a feast for seasoned crate-diggers and fresh-faced converts
alike.
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# track length
01 Kollektiv 04:44
02 National Drone 07:48
03 Anukthal Is Here 05:53
04 Milarepa 03:02
05 Och Solen SΣnkte Sig R÷d 10:48
06 Death Will Find A Way 04:45