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Following weeks of teasing, progressive rockersHAKEN are pleased to announce their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’, their most genre-busting and conceptually fascinating album to date.The album will be released on the 3rdMarch 2023, and following the release of ‘Nightingale’ earlier this year, they are pleased to present ‘The Alphabet of Me’, the second track taken from the record.Watch the video for ‘The Alphabet of Me’, directed by Crystal Spotlight, here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptLj-2Gv4xw Vocalist Ross Jennings comments:“When composing and presenting initial song sketches, we very much had an “anything goes” mentality, and whilst sounding atypically Haken, it was a piece that was all exciting us to explore and integrate into our song canon.Where the lyrics are concerned, I leant heavily on one of my favourite writers Philip K Dick, for inspiration. Keeping our loose concept of spirit animals in mind, I re-read ‘Do robots dream of electric sheep?’ (Which would later be adapted into the 1982 film ’Blade Runner’) knowing symbolically that animals played a key role in the story. This, along with revisiting both movies from the Blade Runner franchise, opened up some deeper philosophical topics about the nature of identity which have served as a backbone for the lyrical content”‘Fauna’ sees the band exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues.“The premise of the album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”