The Fisherman & The Sea

After pushing his art rock tendencies to their maximum with 2022’s dark and brooding Pink Floyd-esque concept album Botify the People, singer-songwriter Jon Fisherman administers the absolute antidote with joyous and break neck speed single Soar from The Fisherman & The Sea’s upcoming album Be More Boldly You. Finally backed by his live band in the studio as well, Fisherman sings of a recurring dream of flying that he’s been having since childhood. All traces of the former solo artist are shed once and for all when Kari Härkönen thunderously announces his busy drum part after a short and deceptively mellow intro, while lead guitarist Tuukka Kauppinen delivers his second trademark solo following first single Stranglehold’s. Soar sounds like a tug-of-war between The Killers and first album era James Bay trying to settle who gets to place their track on the mixtape first.
”I love songs that might sound like a straight-forward pop tune at first but when you start to break it down, it has all these anomalies all but forbidden in today’s music climate. Soar is a song like that. Still, when you do it right, you almost don’t notice these things happening as a listener. That’s the kind of stuff that just delights me, no end. And it’s not like we’re reinventing the wheel here either; the Beatles and Beach Boys were the first to apply this sort of subtle art rock approach to their songs. Somewhere down the years it just got dumbed down. I blame the 80’s!” Fisherman laughs.