Abdomen - Dazed (7" Single)

Dazed is the new single by recent FatCat signings and Netherlands power trio, Abdomen.

Sometimes described in the Dutch press as "post-grunge garage," Abdomen themselves are keen to avoid any pigeonholes or genre labels: "We've been influenced by so many things. Right now punk, post-punk, and noise are important inspirations, but there are a lot, lot more. Rap, hip-hop, electronic music, IDM, electro, and techno, for instance."

Dazed is heavy, heavy hypnotic groove, with a chanted vocal and wall of phased, psychedelic shredding. There are echoes of outfits such as Loop and Spacemen 3 - their stoned/stoner aesthetics, albeit turned up to 11.

It began as a demo set at a frantic pace before producer Rasmus Bredvig suggested slowing it down - "Something like five times" - morphing, mutating, the track into an epic, melodic, psyche mantra.

A head-banging, trance-inducing, transcendental raga, with its sights set on spiritual lift-off, the piece aims to create a path away from the negative toward a more positive way of life.

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Tracklist:

1. Dazed