Highly Suspect – As Above, So Below (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:26 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Roadrunner Records – FRKST
As Above, So Below is the newest gambit in Highly Suspect’s tour of reputation repair, a venture which has never really pulled out of the nosedive it began as. MCID was undoubtedly the beginning in 2019, where Johnny Stevens’ penchant for ego and generally narcissistic rockstar knobheadary took over for an ill-advised crossbreed of the alt / grunge / hard rock they’d spearheaded with unvetted, unoptimised hip-hop and pop. And yet, it’s too noteworthy in its baffling existence to be an outright flop; the only album in 2019 to feature both Young Thug and Gojira can’t be, on principle alone. No, the real failure was 2022’s The Midnight Demon Club, as an attempt to walk back even the faintest sniff of a controversial choice that locked into bland, conservative radio-rock. For a band like Highly Suspect—and, by proxy, a man like Johnny Stevens—hedging your bets to avoid alienating anyone is about as far as the mark can be missed.
Tracklist:
1-1. Highly Suspect – Summertime Voodoo (06:28)
1-2. Highly Suspect – Suicide Machine (03:05)
1-3. Highly Suspect – The Blue-Eyed Devil (04:28)
1-4. Highly Suspect – Mexico (03:42)
1-5. Highly Suspect – Plastic Boxes (04:07)
1-6. Highly Suspect – Melatonia (07:27)
1-7. Highly Suspect – The Reset (05:02)
1-8. Highly Suspect – Run For Your Death (More Pills) (03:17)
1-9. Highly Suspect – Champagne At Our Funeral (04:09)
1-10. Highly Suspect – The 8th Of October (To August 17th) (05:59)
1-11. Highly Suspect – Then Mickey 2 (07:38)
