Limelight
ELECTRIC EYE
Meet the Norwegian stargazers tapping into oceanic energy.
Looking to new
Horizons: Norway’s Electric Eye.
GETTING AWAY FROM it all in search of your creative muse is hardly a new thing. Whether it’s singer-songwriters locking themselves away in remote log cabins in the 00s, or the relocation to the country to ‘get your heads together’ that was obligatory for bands at the turn of the 70s, it’s a time-honoured tactic. But Norwegian space rock explorers Electric Eye chose a more original location than most to inspire their fifth studio album.
“We found this disused lighthouse on a tiny island about an hour’s boat ride away, out in the North Sea,” explains guitarist and vocalist Øystein Braut, who co-founded the band in the small town of Haugesund on the rainlashed west coast of Norway in 2012. “We rented it out for a week and most of the album was written there.”