Black Honey’s fourth continues on their well-travelled path of taking influence from the silver screen, following the Tarantino-inspired Written & Directed, and the hints of Wes Anderson that came sprinkled across A Fistful of Peaches.
This time, the artwork for Soak alludes to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, while ‘Psycho’ name drops one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous pictures. The track itself is a fizzing, synth-laden number, buoyed by its huge hook and Izzy B. Phillips’ Gwen Stefani-esque intonations, before giving way to a spoken-word interlude in which she denounces “the big time producers who tear your scripts to shreds”.
Another recurring theme for the band is their blurring of the lines between tell-all and fantasy.