Odonis Odonis
No pop
Odonis are a Toronto band that have been kicking around awhile now. They started as yet another Post Punk band but on their last album moved to a more industrial sound.
While the album wasn’t perfect, it had enough face melting music on it to catch my attention and eagerly await this release, just to see where they went with it.
They’ve only released 2 songs of the new album but Nasty Boy is the kind of synth fuelled sleaze that I love from the pop end of industrial.
It’s a slow, crawling beat with a vocal that makes you want wash and will undoubtedly soundtrack some strip club in a B movie at some point. I have high hopes for it.
Well worth checking out.
Update
I gave this a listen on the tube on the way to work this morning and I’m not that sure about it. Some of it was interesting enough, but some of it sounds like Sheep on Drugs crossed with Fever Ray. And not in a good way.
The single is still great but approach with more caution than I was hoping for.
Update the second.
This is really growing on me. You should check it out.
Eyre Llew
Eyre Llew are from Nottingham and have been kicking round for the last few years putting out some great singles but this their debut album.
I’m Two listens into it already, which is impressive at work but it’s already caught me in the way that I know this has a good chance of being in my albums of the year.
They claim to be an Ambient Rock band but don’t be fooled, this is vocal post rock and a very good incarnation of it.
This is widescreen music, it reminds me of bands like Blueneck and Sigur Ros, pensive but it absolutely soars when they let the music lift. If the right producer hears this it’s going to be sound tracking Planet Earth 3, something with snow and mountains.
It’s a refreshingly clean sound with the singers high register really making the band stand out in a genre that is choking to death on it’s own lack of vision.
I can’t recommend checking this out enough.
The ways of exile 