Welcome to the feature where we sit down and talk to bands and artists about their latest albums to find out all about it. Today we speak to the Flush about the album Noises.

Hello nice to meet you, tell us about yourself!

Hey! We are Flush, a rock band from Helsinki, Finland. We’ve been around for many centuries and moons and suns and everything, and have finally gotten to releasing our second full length album, ‘Noises’. We like to describe our musical mission as ‘community rock’. It’s for the misfits, for the lonely and for anyone for whom the world occasionally feels a little too much. When we’re in this together, it’s a little easier to get by.

Tell us about the new album

The album is called ‘Noises’ and came out November 29^th. It’s released worldwide by Wormholedeath Records. Sound wise it continues our journey of blending alternative rock, punk rock, metal and grunge, and includes some fast songs, some mid-tempo songs, and a few slower ones too. The songs describe personal feelings of anxiety, loss, and love, and are told through stories of space satellites, gods, multi-universe taxis, and those short moments in life that you don’t want to end because you know you’ll never see that other person anymore.

Favourite track in new album and why?

This is so difficult, like picking your favourite child, but as a continuation of the previous response, let’s pick ‘One Short Moment’. It is the most sincere and personal song on the album, the lyrics are very direct and honest descriptions of loss and death, and I think we managed to create some nice sonic ambience to support the story.

Tell us a bit about the recording process, was it fun to do?

Oh man… There is a long story to this. We actually recorded the album twice! There was nothing wrong with the first version, but it got lost due to reasons beyond our control, so we eventually decided to do everything again. We spent four days on the Finnish countryside with sound engineer Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios, recording the music during daytime, drinking beer in the evenings, and then trying to sleep in this tiny cabin during a hot summer week. A super intense week and it took its toll on us, but we managed to do everything there, together, and hopefully that can be heard on the album. It’s a full band thing, not individual musicians recording at their homes and sending files to each other via email.

What inspired the album name?

We are quite fond of the idea of using a lyric line from a song on the album and make it the title. This time, however, we made it the other way around. The album title is just ‘Noises’ while we have a song called ‘Noises in My Head’ featuring the lines “Can’t show it, won’t show it, all these noises in my head”. It sums up the leading theme of dealing with anxiety, in a world where you are expected to be strong and successful, and those noises are something you need to hide from the rest of the world.

Tell us the idea behind the album cover?

We have a new logo so it had to feature clearly on the cover. Working with our art designer Tuomo Heiti we iterated a few times and ended up with this image to best visualize the concept of noises, in a simple way. Since we are not planning a vinyl release (can’t afford it!) and most people only see the cover art as a small icon on their phone, there isn’t much space for detail nowadays. Hence, a somewhat straight forward image that really strikes home.

What one of your songs on the new album do you think will the most difficult to rehearse for a live audience?

We already know a few challenging ones. ‘One Short Moment’ is one, simply because the recording has more guitars harmonizing than we can produce live. On ‘Unfinished Films’ we have DD Slick, female singer in our buddy band Pro Widow, featuring on a vocal duet, and that obviously will only work live with her on the stage with us. Also, sometimes the faster songs turn out challenging, simply due to the tempo itself and us being a fairly organic band that likes to live in the moment.

Why should people listen to the album?

First, it’s a loud rock album with solid riffs, catchy hooks and good stories. Second, if you ever feel like you struggle to keep up with everything going on in your life and this world, this album should provide momentary relief. Maybe it could even connect you to others who feel the same way. Third, you should listen to this so you know what happened to Stella, the space satellite.