The prolific musician/video artist Luke Wyatt‘s Torn Hawk project returns on February 18th with his Through Force Of Will release, due out via Not Not Fun Records. The cover art features an image encrusted with Wyatt’s signature “video mulch”, but even thru the bit-warped distortion and noise we can make out a man, fist pumped skyward in triumph, with what appears to be a set of high school bleachers in the green-grey background. Coupled with the album’s title and tracks like “Streets on Fire“, “A November Mission“, “To Overthrow“, etc., we find Mr. Wyatt exploring his Saturnine and Martial aspects on this upcoming release. In a recent Red Bull Music Academy interview with Gabriel Szatan, Wyatt explained that this Not Not Fun record will be, “the last hazy, guitar-driven movie anthems of its kind”, and coupled with an upcoming release for Rush Hour, these two sonic statements will be the set-up for a 2014 full-length that Wyatt promises will provide, “a conversation between opposing points of view, a contrast I want to push further.” While elements of urban decay definitely infect much of the Torn Hawk sound, Through Force of Will‘s “Blindsided” unwinds in hopeful sky-bound melodies, and while they still bear slight distress markings and evidence of the cities wear and tear, Wyatt’s elegaic moods are replaced by something much more elated here…
