The Man Comes Around

Sometimes less is more. With just bass, drums, and djembe, HYLKO managed to create a sonic world every bit as engaging as any five-piece band in the stoner rock world on their debut album, The Man Comes Around. They do so through an innovative and varied use of effected (and in a roundabout way I suppose affected as well) bass tones, creative playing and song structures, and (most importantly) killer riffs. Speaking of which, the album was mastered by Eternal Elysium's own riff master, Yukito Okazaki!! While the lack of guitar (and vocals) may turn some people off, those people were never your real friends anyway. Buy the ticket, take the ride. This is one of the most fun albums I've heard a long while. ~ Ben Bellum (The Greatest Thing You've Never Heard) A gritty, jazzed-up, fuzzed-out stoner psych manifesto dipped in a delicious sauce of Japanese weirdness and tribal percussion. A welcome assault to your eardrums. ~ Ronny Dijksterhuis (Stoner HiVe) HYLKO is a very unique project from Japan that utilizes electric bass with drums and tribal instruments. While simple at face value, this combination along with Hylko's thoughtful compositions create a massively immersive, bewitching, and heavy stoner/psych sound, proving that you can often do more with less. ~ Stephanie Zalta (DoomCakes, Screaming From The Heavy Underground)