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Electric Abyss is an album released on January 18, by Greek stoner rock group Hazy Sea. Almost forty minutes long, and with seven tracks – Storm In My Head, Ghost Rider, Under The Mountain, Run Run Run, Amigos, Deadly Dance and The Road –, this album is a formidable exemplar of the genre, with strong guitars, a solid sonorous presence, and an underling strength of musical relevance, being a spectacular and precious record, that elevates stoner rock into an art sound category. With slow, but bruising, pervasive, pungent and marvelous guitar lines, this album is one of a kind: you will feel profoundly astounded and captivated after hearing the wonderful tunes this album presents us. With almost electrifying harmonies, that are as soft as winds in a spring morning, but concomitantly as incisive as hazardous fire flames incinerating your eyes, Electric Abyss has warm and expansive rhythms – brilliantly shaped by sharp and strident riffs –, that are probably among the best that you will ever hear, in the history of the genre.
Probably, as you have found by now, the guitars are the driving force behind this magnificent album, although not exclusively. Powerfully sculpting the amazing harmonies of the songs, the musical creation as a whole is a major achievement, giving Electric Abyss a very special signature. Being very far away of an ordinary or common stoner album, this work is a lucid combination of timing, musical form and strikingly crafted melodies. Certainly the work of skilled, technically talented and very proficient musicians, they obviously managed very well the creation of a very authorial style of instrumental rock.
There is not a single song on this album that I would evaluate as minor or insignificant. And, although the rhythms of the songs are predominantly slow, you will never feel bored or unsatisfied. And this highlights a paradox: the overall harmonies of the songs are quite simple, never too complex or arranged in incomprehensible mathematical patterns. Nevertheless, they brilliantly stand at the height of a monumental musical excellence, easily extracting a formidable, impeccable and sensational sound of virtuous artistic input, marvelously amplified by the intuitive nature of their organic sonorous synergy.
Electric Abyss is a fabulous album. With influences of southern rock, and traditional rock’n’roll as well – perfectly diluted in the overflowing originality of their own sound – Hazy Sea is a spectacular and passionate stoner rock act from Greece, that has everything necessary to achieve their place on the scene. I have never a heard a band with such a simple music, that could sound so ostensibly wonderful. Electric Abyss is simply a great album! You have to listen for yourself, in order to possibly believe.
Wagner
Probably, as you have found by now, the guitars are the driving force behind this magnificent album, although not exclusively. Powerfully sculpting the amazing harmonies of the songs, the musical creation as a whole is a major achievement, giving Electric Abyss a very special signature. Being very far away of an ordinary or common stoner album, this work is a lucid combination of timing, musical form and strikingly crafted melodies. Certainly the work of skilled, technically talented and very proficient musicians, they obviously managed very well the creation of a very authorial style of instrumental rock.
There is not a single song on this album that I would evaluate as minor or insignificant. And, although the rhythms of the songs are predominantly slow, you will never feel bored or unsatisfied. And this highlights a paradox: the overall harmonies of the songs are quite simple, never too complex or arranged in incomprehensible mathematical patterns. Nevertheless, they brilliantly stand at the height of a monumental musical excellence, easily extracting a formidable, impeccable and sensational sound of virtuous artistic input, marvelously amplified by the intuitive nature of their organic sonorous synergy.
Electric Abyss is a fabulous album. With influences of southern rock, and traditional rock’n’roll as well – perfectly diluted in the overflowing originality of their own sound – Hazy Sea is a spectacular and passionate stoner rock act from Greece, that has everything necessary to achieve their place on the scene. I have never a heard a band with such a simple music, that could sound so ostensibly wonderful. Electric Abyss is simply a great album! You have to listen for yourself, in order to possibly believe.
Wagner