Gaupa Fyr

Gaupa – Fyr – LP White vinyl

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A1. Lion’s ThornA2. Heavy LordA3. Ten Of TwelveB1. Elastic SleepB2. Sömnen / Febersvan (Live at Monkey Moon Studios, 2023) GAUPA return with new mini album “Fyr” 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 “Fyr” 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. 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.