GENKAKU

Simmering with waves of hopelessness and melancholy,?Genkaku is the second album from ambient metal outft?LOW FLYING HAWKS, featuring dummer Dale Crover (The?Melvins) and bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) alongside multi-instrumentalists EHA and AAL. Produced,?recorded and mixed by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big?Business) at Sound of Sirens and mastered by James?Plotkin (Electric Wizard, Moon Duo), Genkaku is the?follow-up to LFH's 2016 debut, Kofuku, a record?lauded as metal for a dying world and vividly of?its time by Consequence of Sound.?Doomier and boasting bigger hooks, Genkaku is more?riff-flled than the post-metal shoegaze of its predecessor, over'owing with churning guitar dirges and?darkly intense music-as-mood.?Genkaku (Japanese for hallucination or illusion)?also features Melvins frontman King Buzzo, who lends?his unique vocals to the album's titanic lead track,?Smile, and the impossibly awesome Space Wizard.??1. SMILE?2. UNCOOL?3. VIRGIN WITCH?4. SPACE WIZARD?5. HALLUCINATION?6. TWILIGHT?7. SINISTER?WAVES