Progressive
rockers HAKEN are set to release their seventh studio album
‘Fauna’ on the 3rd March 2023, the group’s most genre-busting
and conceptually fascinating album to date.
Today, the band
celebrate Valentine’s Day with the launch of their latest single
‘Lovebite’.
Watch the video now here:
Pre-order the album or stream the track here:
Ross Jennings says
this about the track:
“What better song to
put out on this fine valentine’s day than one about the Black Widow Spider
mating ritual… This is the Phil Collins inspired upbeat love song in 11/8 with
Cannibal Corpse inspired lyrics that you never knew you needed!”
Watch the previously
released videos below.
‘Taurus’:
‘The Alphabet of Me’:
‘Nightingale’:
The tracklisting is as
follows:
1. Taurus
04:49
2. Nightingale
07:24
3. The
Alphabet of Me 05:33
4. Sempiternal
Beings 08:23
5. Beneath
The White Rainbow 06:45
6. Island
In The Clouds 05:45
7. Lovebite
03:49
8. Elephants
Never Forget 11:07
9. Eyes
Of Ebony 08:32
‘Fauna’ will be
available on several formats, including Ltd 2CD (incl. instrumentals), Standard
CD, Gatefold 2LP & as Digital Album. The albums stunningly detailed artwork
was created by Dan Goldsworthy (Charlie Griffiths, Sylosis)
Pre-order now
here: https://haken.lnk.to/Fauna
‘Fauna’ sees the band
exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues. “The premise of the
album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal
assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we
could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has
layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”
“It reminds me of The
Mountain,” adds guitarist and
fellow founder Richard Henshall. “There, we had the idea of not really
a narrative-based album, but more the concept of climbing a mountain and
overcoming the obstacles along the way. Then we took that and thought about how
it could relate to our everyday lives. All of Fauna’s animals relate to us,
personally.”
‘Fauna’ also marks the
return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard permeating the
entire album. “What Pete’s brought sonically to the band has played a
massive role in why we do have a lot of new sounds on this record,” says
Ross. “It’s always a new dynamic when there’s a change in personnel,
and this is a fresh and reviving one. It’s certainly helped proximity-wise,
with Pete being in the country: Pete and Ray [Hearne, Haken’s drummer] would be
at Rich’s place and they’d just start jamming. That’s really key to how the
songs start.”
The band have announced
tour dates for North America and Europe.
Find the full list of
tour dates here: https://hakenmusic.com/tour/
HAKEN are:
Ross Jennings
Richard Henshall
Charlie Griffiths
Pete Jones
Conner Green
Ray Hearne
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