Few artists dare to push sonic horror to its breaking point. Chief Hyena revels in it. Lucky Too is an unholy incantation set to sound, a nightmarish descent through dystopian shadows where reality warps under the weight of primal percussion and hypnotic synth loops. The haunted machinery whirs and wails, unsettling enough on its own, but the vocals sharpen the dread—serene yet laced with something far more sinister.
While I’m no stranger to dark, macabre, eerily Lynchian or dystopian tonal palettes, Chief Hyena still struck spectres of foreboding fear to the core as they reached the epitome of aural horror.
After the tribal percussion-driven intro, a haunting whirling dervish of synth lines entrances you, leaving you susceptible to the single as it unravels as a dark and twisted carnival. It’s clear that if Chief Hyena’s sound gets any darker, their discography will have to come with a trigger warning before long; if any artist is the first to summon evil from the pits of hell through music, it’s going to be them.
There’s no escape from the looming paranoia built into every atom of sound. Their dystopian mix of alternative influences twists itself into strange and unrelenting forms, warping beyond the constraints of genre; it is pure sonic possession—resistance is futile.
The single is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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