A Highasakite Australian Tour 2014 has been announced with the Norwegian indie rock five-piece making their debut visit to our shores.
Heading out this September courtesy of Laneway Presents, the Highasakite Australian Tour 2014 will see the band performing headline shows at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on and Melbourne’s Howler this coming September.
Highasakite’s latest album Silent Treatment (out now thru Caroline Australia) has been garnering irrefutably favourable reviews across the Norwegian press, and the positivity has well and truly gone international.
Intertwining fresh, soaring vocals around synths, guitars and percussion, the result is a delightfully folk-inflected, expansive sound layered with a lush instrumentation. Lead singer Ingrid Helene Håvik displays a vocal lustre that hovers somewhere between light and shade; drawing comparisons to Lykke Li and Björk.
The band formed after Håvik met drummer Trond Bersu at the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory and began to write, record and perform together. Starting as a duo, they soon recruited producer Thomas Dahl to help out on bass and guitar, while also adding Øystein Skar to play synthesizer and eventually Marte Eberson, also on synths and Kristoffer Lo on guitar, flugabone and percussion. Before long, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) jumped on board as a huge supporter after seeing them at Norway’s Øya Festival in 2012 and consequently took them out on tour with him.
Silent Treatment features the rapturous single, ‘Since Last Wednesday’ (listen below) which beautifully unveils their rugged Scandinavian accent, replete with shimmering vocals, twinkling guitars and anthemic pop hooks, all the time thinly veiling a richer, darker subject matter.
Once you hear Highasakite you’ll wonder how you ever got by without them, theirs is an endless sound oscillating between density and spaciousness. Catch Norway’s newest buzz band as they make their way Down Under for the Highasakite Australian Tour 2014.
Highasakite Australian Tour 2014
Thursday 18th September – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney (18+)
Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au
Saturday 20th September – Howler, Melbourne (18+)
Tickets: www.h-w-l-r.com
Tickets on sale Thursday 29th May, 9pm.
