After years of gestation, hibernation, and (probably) procrastination, Norwegian punk outsiders Haraball are back with Fear of the Plow, their most unhinged and gloriously unpredictable album to date. The first taste, lead single ‘Prison Cheese’, is out now on all major digital platforms.
The band had this to say about the single: “’Prison Cheese’ is about volunteering as a gravedigger, helping the local village idiot sort the corpses “correctly”. It’s a morbid tale, but also a celebration of high quality gardening tools and the joys of manual labour.”
Following up 2019’s Hypno, this new record dives deeper into the sonic identity Haraball stumbled upon by accident and then decided to keep: a volatile blend of hardcore, 60’s psych-rock, post-punk, and whatever else they had lying around that didn’t make them cringe. Somehow, the result is even darker, rawer, and yes, uglier than before. But not without the occasional accidental beauty.
“This time, parts of it almost sound pretty,” the band admits. “Some might even say it sounds mature. And we’ll just have to live with that.”
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