Oh Doom!
I Fear This Is The End
(When Humans Are Sad)
Released 26th July
Available on Bandcamp
Every now and again a band / group hit me in the face with some exemplary music like this. Oh Doom! are in that bracket. The best debut EP I’ve heard for a while, taking in early shoegaze, a bit of Mogwai, Pale Saints, you may be getting my drift if you’re a certain age. They certainly know their dynamics! Wayne AF Carey’s radar has gone off the scale with these talented bastards!
First track We Lost Our Friends kicks in with a heavy riff backed by feedback and maudlin keyboard sounds that just batter your brain before kicking in to a massive drumbeat that reminds you of Grandaddy’s classic A.M. 180, especially when it goes all mellow after two and a half minutes in. It’s that good. They’ve lost a lot of friends if the lyrics give you a fuckin’ clue! It ramps up for a massive bit of psych sound to wake up the opiate addicts.
Someone Else Made You Better is the lighter track on this EP. A brilliant piece of music from the newcomers that again sways towards the sound of The Pale Saints and even early Boo Radleys when they were cracking the magic sound of their early input. A tribal drum beat, ethereal bass and guitar, backed by sublime vocals. All Our Songs Are Slow And Sad does what it says on the tin. A slow gothic number that goes into fuck off psych mode in the middle. It’s that special I reviewed it earlier here. Astounding stuff from a virgin band who have found that magic sound.
I don’t know what sort of sewage water they’re drinking in Peterborough at the moment but it definitely doesn’t make you puke up shit. Other People’s Happiness sounds depressing as fuck at the start but lights up your heart when the magic guitar onslaught kicks your brain in. It’s like Mogwai forgetting they’re Scottish and angry and meeting up with Sennen. The best band I’ve heard for a while.
Believe me you’ll not hear anything of this genre better this year! A stone cold classic debut from a band that have everything to be massive in the revival of decent shoegaze.
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