Hathors Smelling Mostly of Roses
“Grief, Roses & Gasoline”, the fourth album from Hathors, was released on 22 May via Noisolution.
Some rock bands carry the burden of the world on their shoulders. Others just want to party. Hathors used to be firmly parked in the former camp. No longer! Hathors have made a discovery: Life isn’t life if there isn’t also a little light and love involved. The title of their new album gives it away, “Grief, Roses and Gasoline”. Anger about all sorts of social injustice (“Grief”) and sadness about the way we abuse the environment (“Gasoline”), like guitars, bass and drums, have been a part of Hathors from the very beginning. The roses, however, are fresh. They stand for a warmer strand of emotions, a new lust for life that flows through the album even when it makes the walls shake.
“Grief, Roses and Gasoline” was recorded in four months in their own studio in Winterthur, a small but musical town near Zurich. “With this album we have almost arrived back where we started”, says Bouffé: “Except now we have complete control over our recordings and the type of aesthetic we want to go for. And we had a massive craving for memorable and carefully produced songs that were also spikey and hard-hitting…” John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Pavement, Wu-Tang Clan) rounded off their work, mixing it in his studio in Seattle.
Hathors are Marc Bouffet (guitar, vocals, sax), Dominique Destraz (drums) und Marco Naef (bass).
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