Hellsingland Underground - Endless Optimism - White - VINYL LP

Swedish six man strong Hellsingland Underground is back with their follow up to the critically acclaimed 2019's InchA Hundred Years Is NothingInch. An album which showed a new side of the band, with more piano based compositions and less noisy guitars. InchThe idea with this album was initially to continue in that direction even further, but it felt like the songs me, and Peter wrote wanted otherwise!Inch Lead vocalist Charlie Granberg says. InchSo instead, it turned out to be the most rowdy in-your-face rock InchnInch roll album we've ever done instead. We are just servants to the music, so who were we to resist?Inch

In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps Inchever more inward, Inch as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record's original introductory text-embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an Inchattitude of total self-containment.InchTomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month-from August 24 to September 25, 1977-at Tokyo's famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa's Inchscreaming philosopherInch vocals find their match with the orchestra's electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police's Toshi Ishizuka-who appears on Tomokawa's first three records and remains his collaborator to this day.InchThis is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh, Inch concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa's uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. InchYou call that life?Inch he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, Inchtry saying you're alive!Inch

The Swedish sextet Hellsingland Underground is back with their fifth full length studio album called InchA Hundred Years Is NothingInch, due to on August 30. On August 9, the first single InchCarnival Beyond The HillsInch is released together with a lyric video. The sound on this album is a big step forward for the band, both sound- and songwriting wise. You can still sense their early day folk and blues influences, but you'll also hear echoes of Pink Floyd, Queen and The Doors. Mini-moogs, mellotron and accoustic guitars has been added into a perfect mix of great personal lyrics, and some of the finest songwriting to ever come from a Swedish rock band. InchA Hundred Years Is NothingInch is their strongest album to date, no doubt.