Gaupa - Fyr - White - VINYL LP

GAUPA return with new mini album InchFyrInch and a slimmed down line-up to serve up some of their heaviest material to date. A multi-layered play on words, in the Swedish language InchFyrInch can mean 'four', which coincides with this being GAUPA's fourth . Yet it can also mean 'lighthouse', 'beacon', and 'fire', which for various reasons fit the music and lyrical content as well. New engineer Karl Daniel Lidén has given the tracks on InchFyrInch a grittier, more aggressive sound. At the same time, the core elements of the Swedes' musical approach are present spellbinding intricacy, tripped-out, spacious verses guiding a steady stream of psychedelia, and waves of hard stoner riffs. Inspired largely by Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning science fiction novel InchThe Word for World Is ForestInch, vocalist Emma Näslund's lyrics contemplate the concept of time as well as the essential question as to what is real, which seeps throughout the songs. Since the of their self-titled EP in 2018, GAUPA - which translates as 'lynx' in English - have paved new ground in the stoner and psychedelic scene, building a unique cosmos defined by enchanting lyrical surrealism and mind-altering sounds. In 2020, their debut album InchFeberdrömInch pushed them into the international spotlight with it's outstanding blend of progressive metal, doom, stoner, and folk, steered by the entrancing vocals of Emma Näslund. The sophomore 2022 full-length InchMyriadInch reached over a million streams on Spotify (the EP's Febersvan now has over 4 million) with the track 'Exoskeleton'. Although GAUPA describe InchFYRInch as a Inchpatchwork of partsInch, with each member having an equal part to play, this mini album comes as a solid record that sets a high bar for their future works. The physical of InchFyrInch comes with a bonus track, which is not included in the digital version.