Highasakite

Highasakite

Highasakite at the Steinkjerfestivalen 2014.
Background information
Genres Indie, Indie-rock, Indie-pop
Years active 2011–present
Labels Propeller Records,
Universal Music
Website highasakite.no
Members Ingrid Helene Håvik
Trond Bersu
Øystein Skar
Marte Eberson
Kristoffer Lo

Highasakite is a Norwegian indie pop band consisting of Ingrid Helene Håvik (on vocals), Trond Bersu (drums), Øystein Skar (synths), Marte Eberson (synths) and Kristoffer Lo (guitar, percussion and flugabone). Håvik writes most of the lyrics and music.[1]

Biography

Highasakite started out opening for other musical projects like Your Headlights Are On, PELbO and Sacred Harp.[1] Their debut album, All That Floats Will Rain, was released in Norway in February, 2012 on record label Riot Factory, and produced by Juhani Silvola and Thomas Dahl. The album reached #16 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.

Silent Treatment was released in February 2014 and reached #1 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.[2] It was named the second best album of the year by Norwegian music critics in a list published by Dagsavisen.[3] The group toured extensively this year, mostly in Norway.[2]

Awards

In May 2014 the group was awarded Bendiksenprisen worth 100,000 NOK.[4] In January 2015 'Silent Treatment' received a nomination for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award.[5] They where allso recipients of the Spellemannprisen 2014 in the category Pop band, for the album Silent Treatment.

Discography

Albums

Year Album Peak positions Track list
NOR
[6]		 AUS
[7]
2012 All That Floats Will Rain 16 —
  1. "Son of a Bitch"
  2. "Winners Don't Come Easy"
  3. "Indian Summer"
  4. "When You Have Gone"
  5. "In and Out of Weeks"
  6. "God Is a Banquet"
  7. "My Soldier"
  8. "Whatever That Means"
  9. "Everything Sank in You"
  10. "The Heron"
2014 Silent Treatment 1 90
  1. "Lover, Where Do You Live?"
  2. "Since Last Wednesday"
  3. "Leaving No Traces"
  4. "Hiroshima"
  5. "My Only Crime"
  6. "I, the Hand Grenade"
  7. "Darth Vader"
  8. "Iran"
  9. "The Man on the Ferry"
  10. "Science & Blood Tests"

Singles

Year Single Peak position Album
NOR
[6]
2013 "Since Last Wednesday"  – Silent Treatment

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Julia Petersen in Dagbladet: Avlys resten av musikkåret - Har du mista troen på popmusikk? Highasakite er her for å vise deg lyset (in Norwegian)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thomas Talseth (14 February 2014) Highasakite er årets albumvinnere (Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Espen Hågensen Rusdal (12 December 2014) Her er listene over den beste musikken i 2014 (Norwegian) Dagsavisen. Archived from the original 14 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Stein Østbø (20 May 2014) Highasakite vant 100.000 kroner (Norwegian) VG.
  5. ↑ "23 albums up for European Independent Album of the Year Award". IMPALA. 29 January 2015.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Steffen Hung. "Highasakite page". NorwegianCharts.com. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  7. ↑ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 29 September 2014" (PDF) (1283). Pandora Archive. September 30, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
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Awards
Preceded by
Real Ones		 Recipient of the best Pop band Spellemannprisen
2014 		Succeeded by
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