GAUPA · Fyr | DIGISLEEVE CD

Digisleeve CD.

Background information about 'Fyr'

Swedish progressive stoner rock powerhouse GAUPA return with their most crushing mini-album to date, "Fyr".This multi-layered play on words in Swedish can mean 'four', which coincides with this being GAUPA's fourth release. 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 "Fyr" a grittier, more aggressive sound.FYR is introduced by mesmerising bagpipes with Lion's Thorn, its tripped-out, spacious verses guiding listeners through a steady stream of psychedelia, before waves of hard stoner riffs crash down and tear minds in two. The mini album's first single Heavy Lord produces one of the most hypnotic choruses of 2025 alongside an unexpectedly tongue-in-cheek music video, and third track Ten Of Twelve dazzles with astounding guitar work and monstrously weighty percussion. Closer Elastic Sleep is a genre-flipping masterpiece, as enthralling psych rock swells into crests of ripping djent metal and cosmic doom.Inspired largely by Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning science fiction novel "The Word for World Is Forest", 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.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.The physical release of "Fyr" comes with a bonus track, which is not included in the digital version.For fans of: Sleep, Electric Wizard, Windhand, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Graveyard, Blood Ceremony

Track listing

1. Lion's Thorn
2. Heavy Lord
3. Ten Of Twelve
4. Elastic Sleep
5. Sömnen / Febersvan (Live at Monkey Moon Studios, 2023)

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