Description
Finnish reality, smacking faces like the freezing drizzle of January. Pelagos’ yet unrevealed sophomore album, The Boat, was influenced by various different musical styles and eras. Shades of soft-reggae, AOR, dream-pop and trance-rock – to name a few – were blended together for the record, and naturally the whole recipe was topped with a generous pinch of psychedelic spices. The song themes hover broadly on the shady alleys of human life, in search of light and warmth. At times, the themes reach a point where the whole humanity condenses into a moment where the highway leads towards a hopeless, temporary relief, as hands squeeze knuckles white on the steering wheel. The Boat is a soundtrack for darkening nights, where boundaries of sleep and wakefulness, past and present, life and afterlife vanish and a memory recalls: you, standing on a beach, one foot buried in hot sand, one foot buried in ice-cold seawater…
