Weedpecker – IV

Die Avantgarde der polnischen Psychedelic-Heavy-Rock-Szene ist zurück mit ihrem brandneuen Album IV.

„IV“ ist ein tiefes, lebendig strukturiertes Psychedelik Album – eine vielschichtige Rockplatte. Mit dem treibenden Opener „No Heartbeat Collective“ packt die Band neue musikalische Elemente in ihren Sound. Eine Mischung aus ätherischen Tönen, schrägen Gitarrenlinien und sanften Riffs verschmilzt in einträchtiger Harmonie. „IV“ überrascht mit psychedelischen Edelsteinen und erinnert ein wenig an frühe Werke von Tame Impala.

Der ehemalige Co-Lead-Gitarrist Bartek hat als Ton-Ingeniur mitgewirkt und durfte auch seinen Arrangement-Fähigkeiten freien Lauf lassen. Diese Kombination von neuem Input und Experimentierkunst hat IV zum bisher mutigsten Album in der Geschichte der Band gemacht.

Dazu Piotr Dobry, Gitarrist, Vocalist und Komponist WEEDPECKER:

„From the very beginning of the band’s existence, my aim was to combine psychedelic music with heavy riffs. On the new album, heavy riffs were mostly replaced by hard rock and progressive elements – everything soaked in psychedelic motifs. There are also other influences, but I’ll get back to it later.

We wanted the new material to be really polished and we paid a lot of attention to details. Apart from me, Dominik and then Bartek were strongly engaged in working on arrangement. Bartek joined us two months before the recordings began, working out the arrangement details. I usually brought a riff and then the boys came up with their remarks/amendments. Bartek came up with a few riffs too. We recorded demo versions, listened to them and discussed how to make them sound better. Before recording we made pre production which made a lot of things clear for us when we were still preparing the material – it was a big innovation.

In general, a lot is happening on the album. I think it’s the mix of music we like listening to and music we like playing. You can hear influences of psychedelic music, hard rock, indie, progressive rock or even heavy metal. Putting it all together creates, in my opinion, an interesting mixture

I think it’s the most refined album in our discography. We definitely put the greatest amount of work into it. I can say I’m proud of this album! I’m really happy that Bartek took care of the production and highligted a lot of subtleties that we weren’t able to emphasize on the previous albums. Finally Haldor took care of the mastering and, as always, did a great job !

I’ve been asked many times if the album would be like III. Of course not, we don’t want to record albums that would sound the same and I think we’ve already shown it. This album is a natural continuation of our previous albums, I think nobody will doubt they listen to Weedpecker!“