Sons of Morpheus – Fruits

 

 

Sons of Morpheus – Fruits
Sixteentimes Music – 2024
Rock, Prog, Blues, Free, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

Sons Of Morpheus is here to wake you from your slumber of indolence and at the same time the three from Basel / Winterthur, Switzerland are here to make you dream, to fill your sould with reverie. After that wild psychedelic blues and stoner album called Nemesis from 2017, which was filled with masterful grooves and turned all that grungy o’ so soulful, they are now back with a new album. Fruits as it is called will give you almost a full hour of heaviness. This time around the three go back to their blues roots and use it to dive more into prog rock territory. Although there are definite moments that will remind you of their approach to stonerrock, their love for seventies free rock, freak out blues, psychedelic touches and a bit of garage. In fact, there are a lot of those moments, but because the more prog based influences are bigger than before, it felt right to mention them outright. Indeed, on Fruits, the Sons Of Morpheus come bearing gifts. Even though it’s us that should be sending them presents, cause 2024 marks their ten year anniversary. And on this festive Fruits album they use that more prog approach to travel back to their blues roots, cause it all began as a blues rock project called Rozbub. Third track Soothe My Soul is perhaps the most obvious blues rocking masterpiece. You know the kind, the diesel blues kind. Seventies guitar work, warm blooded riffs, a masterful bouncy groove, bopping bass, punctuating drums, sometimes funky, sometimes choppy and a bit jazzy, it’s all there and it will surely soothe your soul! And after your soul is all at ease and preparing to surf the magnetic currents of blues based bliss, it gets jogged violently awake by fourth track, punky rocker Braindead. Stomping its message home, with that fierce refrain and vocals that will mill around your head for the rest of the week. Running, is that free rock kind of music, propellent and reverie inducing. Or what the Kamchatka three would call: Freak Blues. Invoking the spirit of both Vaughan and Hendrix, these three minutes of motoring blues are like the one unlucky drink that shoves a wavering alcoholic off the wagon. If you weren’t completely enamored with Sons Of Morpheus before Running, this one will surely get you. But you were probably already feeling goosebumps from that first tracks. Cause those were the seminal prog based tracks, the influence stretches out over all of them in some way or form, but single Hello Stranger and opener Capstan both combine that prog with stoner and psych and make it all as grandiose as possible. And did we mention Smoke & Trash yet? That second track of the album, sporting splendid multiple vocals, a very contemplative opening, soon turning into this thunderstorm, that whirls and builds and finally comes to that most blissful of breaks. You will be ready. And you will soar once they kick back in. Expertly done and a moment of pure euphoria. And that’s what this entire album seems to be kicking around a lot, euphoric prog moments and blissful blues, balanced and intriguing. This is quite the celebratory album for Sons Of Morpheus! Congratulations!

And hey! You can already listen to two singles on the Sixteentimes Music bandcamp right now! Or come back to Stoner HiVe tomorrow… Indeed, tomorrow on Thursday the 14th of March, we will have the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for this wild Sons Of Morpheus album… Come back on Thursday for the gift that is: Fruits!

(Written by JK)

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