The Hawk Messengers – Scifi-Wifi

 

 

The Hawk Messengers – Scifi-Wifi
Self released – 2021
Rock, Desert, Kraut, Alternative, Psych
Rated: ****

Okay, so perhaps, not everyone was hooked on that self-titled Drug album back when it came out in 2017. But I found that alternative and experimental high desert sound pretty intoxicating! They worked with Brant Bjork's wife and artist Zaina Alwan and recorded a Jam In The Van segment at Brant’s Jalamanta Studio before slowly settling into that Drug sound. Or did they? Cause, well, they now stared a new outfit named The Hawk Messengers. And on their first release Scifi-Wifi they sound less experimental and even more addictive. Championed by Dave Catching and everything Rancho De La Luna, The Hawk Messengers now sound like pure alchemic gold. Taped loops as a fourth member and entirely spaced out rhythms create an enormous vista for you to get lost in. Inspired by a kraut rock approach and a psychedelic universe it will trip you up and send you tumbling down the hole, waiting for the (gram) rabbit to follow you down. There is something very special lurking in these six tracks, something hard to define, something electric and something triumphant. It’s that desert thing, and it seems to epitomize the air that seems to flow like water over there… Let’s swim… Are you ready to take the dive?

(Written by JK)

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