Sasquatch – Fever Fantasy

 

 

Sasquatch – Fever Fantasy
Mad Oak Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: *****

They played Stoned From The Underground yesterday. A festival I have yet to attend; but has been high on my list for ages. Our very own Doktor420 is there right now, dancing like a maniac in front of the stage at every gig. The line-up is once again one hell of excellent collection of heaviness and Sasquatch sits there on the main stage, snugly, proudly, giddy, feverish with energy and probably very hairy. And with their new album Fever Fantasy under their belt, they will surely make the crowd go wild! I wish I was there, I wish I was there to hear them opening their set with the opening track It Lies Beyond The Bay of said new record Fever Fantasy. I would have closed my eyes and I would have surely mistaken it, if only for a moment or two, for the rock version of a Nine Inch Nails we unfortunately will never know. Not sure if it is the touch of industrial that you can here in the drums, the intense use of cymbals, that double beat or because it is the color of the vocals that surely does remind of Trent Reznor here and there, more than on earlier records, that makes me think of NIN. But it’s there and it works like a charm. That touch remains throughout the record and gives Fever Fantasy a distinctly different color and vibe in comparison to the albums we mentioned on the HiVe before; we mean the 2010 III album, IV from 2013 and their last 2017 record: Maneuvers. Which might have been the starting point to deliver this new step in the Sasquatch evolution. Cause sure, we still got that damn fine gritty groove to enjoy; the abundance of hooks; thundering basswork and machinelike riffs. But the beast has grown to become a monster, one that can just as easily stomp through the desert as rampage a city. And there is no shortage of that forward motion; rioting inside a tilt-a-whirl or motoring through a towering landscape, Sasquatch can do it all and does it all, with a dense layer of fuzz, some psychedelic touches, little organ parts making it all extra colorful and a very own sound. Cause if there’s one thing we can safely say, after almost twenty years of rocking out, Sasquatch, only sounds like Sasquatch and no other band will ever be able to match that unique sound. And certainly not Nine Inch Nails...

(Written by JK)

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