52 Hertz Whale
Present Sense Impression
The Bratislava-based band 52 Hertz Whale release their album 'Present Sense Impression' in a collaboration of the labels Weltschmerzen and Full Moon Forum. Three years since their album 'I've Met A Lot of People,' the band brings forth a lot of new ideas, finding a new resonant space, and utilising the fierceness and savageness of their live shows, in an intimate stare at contemporary guitar music. 52 Hertz Whale is a band well known in the Central European music context. Their ferocious sound, mixing the intensity of post-punk, heavy guitar wails, and melancholic, stark vocals of Dominik Prok has been tearing down the fixtures of many festivals and venues, all the while being a great example of a band driving at 200mph nonstop. On 'Present Sense Impression,' the band, composed of Dominik Prok, Dominik Fabian, Patrik Nagy, Tomás Tabis and Adrián Krisák, have arrived at a record full of manifold manifestations of their live sound, but at times recalling the more marginal waves of '80s pop/rock sound. Resolute drums, heavyweight guitar and bass riffs now deem closer to the lightness of early ethereal darkwave, just to indulge in the classic melancholic heaviness they are known for only seconds after.