Tricklebolt – Honey From The Sky

 

 

Tricklebolt – Honey From The Sky
LAB Music – 2024
Rock
Rated: ****

Drummer Daan Wopereis’s other band is called Tricklebolt. Yes! Now I remember, I was searching for that name during the Sonic Whip Festival, as I watched him groove on stage. And tried to tell the drummer from Phe about all his other bands. For you might already know him from noise punkers Geishes Of Doom, the new psychedelic garage-ists Kintsugi Empire that was playing on Sonic Whip at that moment or that wild free rock outfit called Temple Fang. With him are Bastian Pen, Lead vocals / Rhythm Guitar, Tim Kampman, Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals, Daan Pen, Bass guitar and Menno Nijen Es on Keys. Together they formed a band called Tricklebolt, some ten years ago, hit a massive amount of stages, delivered strong albums like their self-titled debut and Straight Into The Blue from 2020. And now they are back with a giant of an album called Honey From The Sky. Nine tracks recorded in eight different studios and with the aid of eight musical friends. The cream of the crop of the Dutch heavy, psychedelic and classic rock scene and we’re gonna namecheck them all now. Wout Kemkens from Shaking Godspeed, Iron Jinn, De Niemanders. Pablo van der Poel from DeWolff. Rens Ottink from Pauw. The entire Splinter crew. Two tracks with the Indian Askin four. Pieter Holkenborg, from Automatic Sam, Ten East, Geishes Of Doom and his new Kintsugi Empire. Niek Cival from The Grand East. And Jim Zwinselman from Bökkers, Boogie Monster, Strand Of Oaks and Jimmy Diamond. That is quite the list! And it turned into quite the album! If you know any or all of those names, you can easily deduct what direction the sound will take. Back towards the golden age of rock, classic, bluesy, soulful and chuck full of love for the good stuff. A bit of psychedelic garage and a lot of seventies and sixties. A kaleidoscopic thunderstorm of sound that will show you all kinds of colors and languidly shifts through the scenery by way or lovely pedal steel, delicious organ work, vocal harmonies that will surely warm the bones and all of it will send flutters through your heart. Honey From The Sky, is like sugar water for the soul!

(Written by JK)

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