LowFlyingHawks - Genkaku

Out on Magnetic Eye Records and packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, with the audio pressed on sweet yellow and white swirl vinyl - don't miss this!
 
"Enter: Low Flying Hawks who arrive with their second album, Genkaku (which roughly translates from Japanese as “illusion” or “hallucination”), featuring guests Dale Crover and King Buzzo from the Melvins, if this tells you anything about pedigree. Not enough for you? How about Trevor Dunn from Mr. Bungle lending his talents alongside main songwriters and multi-instrumentalists EHA and AAL to deliver a slab of psychedelic doom that has moments rivaling some of the best currently out there.
 
One of the things that immediately captures attention on this album are the spindly barbs of fuzz layered onto the tones of each instrument. On a lot of records one can become completely numb to its use but here the immediacy of it is such that it never fades away. “Smile” as an individual song and album opener, featuring King Buzzo’s vocals at one point, provides a dizzying view into the world of this band. The opening interplay between the bass and guitars is reminiscent of what Pallbearer do when at their best, sending the audience on a descent into the cavernous sound of this band, left to gaze upwards at the rapidly fading light. The Hawks also manage to go a little deeper with lyrics that are deeply personal and, relatively, hopeless in nature which takes their audience to new depths for a format that normally trades in obscured personal or ethereal subject matter." Heavy Blog is Heavy