Chime Oblivion: Chime Oblivion
(Deathgod Corp)
Out now
John Dwyer enlists a gang of mates to make a screeching and bouncy post-punk-garage report filled with wired and wily riffs and shouts. Pure enjoyable and frolics from veterans of the scene…with a brand new voice.
How can we presumably let this one go by? Out of nowhere, Osees’ John Dwyer returns (as if he ever went away!) with one more venture: Chime Oblivion. Joined by David Barbarossa of Adam & The Ants/Bow Wow Wow on the skins, Weasel Walter of Chicago noise-rockers Flying Luttenbachers on guitar, fellow Osees Tom Dolas on fuzz marimba, and Dwyer’s Witch Egg bandmate Brad Caulkins bringing the free-form jazz sax wailings, they take the gonzo-post-punk-garage of SORCS 80 and twist it additional. All aided by Chime Oblivion’s secret weapon, H.L. Nelly. Extra generally discovered behind the controls for bands reminiscent of Bare Lights and Surplus 1980, it’s her electrifying vocals that add the additional gas to this already wired band.
All through the album, the songs skirt the sting of the unusual. Bolstered by Dwyer’s synths and Caulkins’ sax, their Witch Egg collaboration sound coming by means of in matches and begins, there’s a sense that it might all disintegrate at any second. It’s in that feeling, the swirling chaos of fuzz, the screeches and yelps, the scattergun rhythms that they actually make their mark, the album pulling collectively each member’s go well with because the tracks skip with out abandon by means of no-wave noise, out into dub touches and moments that hark again to the Thee Oh Sees.
From the opening twelve-second Incidental Synth explodes Neighborhood Canine, a proto-new wave march, Nelly’s militant vocal supply calling to thoughts her little question heroines, Poly Styrene and Ari Up. That the track then rolls splendidly into the opening toms of Kiss Her Or Be Her hammers dwelling the Slits’ affect that permeates the looser rhythms. Alongside them, whereas songs like I’m Not A Mirror stand out for being extra standard, creating a fantastic hook within the melody, interspersed by Gang Of 4-like stutter-starts and shifting rhythms, it’s the extra free-form tracks that basically seize you.
The wails, screeches, and dizzying almost-spoken vocals of songs reminiscent of Heated Horses are pinned collectively by Barbarossa and Dwyer’s expertly crafted rhythm part. They be part of the chaos precisely the place wanted, whereas at different moments present the strong backing crucial to construct the labyrinth of sound. There’s a sense of pure abandon, of reins and reigns damaged, as all through the album it looks like something goes. Smoke Ring is a schizophonic blast that basically encompasses the liberty, with the most effective closing breakdown you’re prone to hear all yr.
In John Dwyer, David Barbarossa has discovered the right new sparring companion, and, in the remainder of the band, the best group to convey all of it collectively. Chime Oblivion is sort of presumably the weirdest and most implausible storage report thus far this yr, and one other excessive watermark in its protagonists’ long-stretching catalogue.
Chime Oblivion is offered now on Bandcamp.
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Warfare archive right here.
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