Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s
Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Cobranoid
Sun & Sail Club
WhiteCrow
Joan As Police Woman
Hans Hjelm
Psychlona
Tusmørke
Bobbie Dazzle
The Ghost Next Door
Whores.

Morning everyone! This post usually goes up on Monday, but as usual, stuff and an interview with Ugly Kid Joe got in the way. They always do. They rocked the stage and were tight as hell. Pre-show Virgin Prozak was also pretty damn good with their weird mix of everything heavy. Looking back at the week we did a Quick Fire Friday session, finished the Stoner Hype for July post and we’re honored to premiere the debut Cobranoid album! What a scorcher! The new and wonderful Tusmørke album got mentioned and the Castle single 100 Eyes. And the totally frightened Ronny wrote about Absorb. And during the weekend we finally published the review for the new Psychlona album Warped Vision. And we had hoped to have the Phil Hey interview about that album finished by now. But it might take a few more days. The rent needs to get paid unfortunately… Let’s hope we finish it quickly and can do more this week! Enjoy the sun and check out them albums in the Top 10 Most Listened list, they’re all worth it!

Tusmørke – Dawn of Oberon

 

 

Tusmørke – Dawn of Oberon
Karisma Records – 2024
Rock, Folk, Psych, Prog, Seventies
Rated: ****

Personally, I identify with the Peter Pan Syndrome the members of Tusmørke admittedly suffer from. “The record is a manifestation of our Peter Pan syndrome; our aesthetics and ideals remain unchanged for the last 25 years. Never grow up, just grow old. This time we go away with the fairies all together, to the far-away land of the far-out mind.” I’m just getting older, but on many levels I’ve never grown up and that might be one of the reasons that Dawn Of Oberon whisks me away from the first moments and sends me down the rabbit hole and skipping along the yellow brick road. And there I dance like a Labyrinth firey about to lose my head on all that majestic organ and flute work. Last album they versed mostly in Norwegian, but this time the four from Oslo stay mostly in English territory, but always in a fairy tale land. Opening track Dawn Of Oberon had been lying in wait, for some thirty years, waiting to be finished at the right time. And with new drummer, Kusken, and keyboard player, Herjekongen this was the moment. It’s a wonderful, pastoral touched seventies prog and folk wandering. It travels and takes you further away with every note played. Less quirky then the Hestehoven album that came before, its still all full of love and smiles. Cause c’mon, a title like Born To Be Mild for the second track will surely make you chuckle. All of it will send a flutter down your spine and time will pass by in an entirely different speed. Something very good prog always seems to do. And then to find out that the remainder of the album is actually a five-piece suite that came natural to the boys once almost eighteen minute long Dawn of Oberon was finished, feels exhilarating. Based on jams and bits remembered from live shows, every track is bursting with life. It adds to the looseness of it all and gives the air of minds coming together and having the time of their lives. It’s lightning, captured. It’s positive energy trans morphed into wild folky prog. It’s Tusmørke, the only ones that can truly bring fairytales alive. Because they live them…

(Written by JK)

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Tusmørke - Hestehoven

 

 

Tusmørke - Hestehoven
Karisma – 2023
Rock, Folk, Psych, Prog, Seventies
Rated: ****

We cannot ever do the freakiness and weirdness of Tusmørke justice when scribbling something about their new Hestehoven album. That seventies pastoral touch, that violin, that flute, the way they capture so much light and air with their twelfth album in eleven years, amazing. And they know they’re freaky, and they like it a lot. Infusing pop song melodies into their psychedelic and progressive folk rock proves just that. I don’t think many bands would use the Lambada in the title song of their new record, but Tusmørke does whatever the hell they want. Cause they don’t stop there and take a trek through many musical and movie theme songs, so it seems. It almost becomes a sport to spot them all. And I doubt I managed to catch every one of them. Gotta catch them all! And all that lightness of poppiness treats you to stories, mostly in Norwegian about local myths, stargazing and their love of clouds. Love of clouds? Indeed, but we can also hear something about The Wicked Ways of Witches and Wizards, and that’s not just your basic Saturday night orgy. No siree. A creepy tale about a fertility cult gone wrong. You see, the Tusmørke four are as unique as they are when it comes to song subjects. But even though most of their humor will only be understood by those versed in Norwegian, the quirky prog folk remains audible to all. And that’s enough to transport you to a different time and place altogether. Where a cauldron is bubbling with a mysterious liquid, watched over by a raven, in an otherwise abandoned hut, and you cannot help but help yourself to a spoonful… Or two…

(Written by JK)

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