And we’re trying to let people know that we are here and we’ve woken up, sort of thing. I suppose it’s the awakening of the band again - you can put it down to that as well, the sleeping giant sort of thing. “To be honest, that’s more Mick’s and Phil’s thing. And even though Sea Of Light is one of our best albums, I think this one tops it.”Īsked to articulate the Wake The Sleeper concept, Bolder demurs. It’s got more Hammond organ on it, more wah-wah guitar, and is just a heavier album, than Sea Of Light and Sonic Origami - there are more laid-back songs on those albums. “I think this is a heavier album, more of a Heep album, if you go back to the ‘70s and listen to the earlier Heep. “I think that Sea Of Light is… I don’t know, it’s such a long time since I heard it,” chuckles Bolder, asked to define the lay of the land with this trio of similar albums. I usually talk to Mick (and more often than I thought would happen… Ken!), so it was cool to catch up with the reticent Trevor Bolder, bassist for this band of harmonizing heavies. Wake The Sleeper can be viewed as the bold vigorous latest model of a Heep deep in a Heepy sound, which began anew with the fantastic and well-regarded Sea Of Light from ’95, through the lighter and less beloved Sonic Origami from ’98, and now into new Hammond-rocked life for the band here ten years (and one retired drummer) later. OK, it’s pretty much unanimous – folks are absolutely digging the new URIAH HEEP album.
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