Album Review: The Jensens – Hyacinth Haze

The Jensens’ debut album hits all the stops in just seven tracks. Coma opens the album, the band sounding like a revitalised New Order but with the right amount of spacey psychedelics to create their own signature atmospherics. Four Chambers powers in with a loud solo and echoing vocals. 

Ringing with Last Dinosaurs and Methyl Ethel vibes, The Jensens urge you to get up on your feet and destroy the dancefloor. Mount Mura has a catchy chorus, while Slur assaults the listener with a beautifully smooth sax line. In Thought opens with ambient piano but continues into a wildly experimental '80s-esque trance. Horrors fades into yet another blend of psychedelic ambience, still channeling New Order. The six-minute escapade ends with yet another incredible saxophone solo. 

Actuality ends the album with a rollercoaster of emotions, verses capturing feelings of wasted love and experience. Hyacinth Haze is perfectly named, an album that needs to hit every radio station.