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Tusmörke's's New Album Is a Freaky Frolic Through Acid Folk and Weird Prog

Caper along with these Finnish prog weirdos on their new album, 'Fort Bak Lyset' (out 4/1 via Svart Records).

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I'm not going to lie to you: Tusmörke's new album, Fort Bak Lyset, is weird as hell. The well-worn "sounds like [random band] on acid!" trope is way, way overused, so I won't go there, but I'm also going to go out on a limb here and assume that the fine Finns behind Tusmörke weren't completely sober when they recorded this—or if they were, they were tapped into some kind of unseen realm that we mere mortals can only imagine.

Fort Bak Lyset is rich with psychedelia and folky wyrdness, a wonderfully trippy blend of Hexvessel's woodsy freak folk, 70s Jethro Tull-isms (hella flutes!) and that unique strain of Finnish heavy progressive wackiness we all know and cock our heads at like confused puppies. Go and have a listen for yourself, and grab the CD from Svart Records on the feast of fools, April 1 (the vinyl version is out April 22).