Well the little green men are back with a new 2-track single on
Chunklet Industries Records(like their first single) and man that is great news!
Every Day is The Same / Sandstoneare clearly coming from some swampy noise rock pool... Vangas is
not fucking around any more and wants it dirty, heavy and in-your-face in
a very loud and noisy way...
Heavy bass, angry/desperate vocals, stomping but obsessive drums,
alternatively discreet, bursting and insane guitar parts:
Every Day Is The Same is a masterpiece of modern despair, a
beautiful incarnation of entrapment feeling. And as half of the world has
been or is still experiencing a lockdown, I am sure I will not be the only one
relating to it... Genius!
Sandstone
takes us for a longer trip, more than 5 minutes long it gives plenty of time
to our sexually deranged goblins to explore the darkest corners of their noise
rock... As a spectator we can only be (once again) the witnesses of the band
enthusiasm for noise, larsens and everything that can sound like chaos out of
an amp... Grab holding our plastic chairs and beer cans, petrified, we can
stare, blink maybe and listen to our ears bleeding...
Yes it is dark, very dark and it will remind to a lot of you long evenings of teenage depression, warm beer and shapes carvings in the forearms...
Great female-fronted straight forward punk edging with hardcore, it
sounds sometimes like a fast version of Action Pact! or
Vice Squad but the barking vocals reminds me strongly of Ashley
from
Cold Meat.
These guys know their classics and manage to keep it diverse enough to not
bore me for a sec.
Mid-tempo or fast with strong UK82 influences in
Living Somewhere and Spiritual Vision, Utopian can also
be close to the hardcore side of punk in Immaterial or
Circle A.
But this demo tape is all but a bulldozer, it's fast, it's slower, it's
taking you aside for a smart break but the energy is always maximum...
A great demo, I just hope to learn more about the band with their future
releases!
Ohmns is from Liverpool, UK, and has been playing some furious
garagish punk since 2014.
They have toured with bands like The Black LipsandThe Gories but their sound has
evolved quite a lot over the past few years, taking them slowly out of the
garage circle...
The Rice Tape
is the band first release (2016): 5 tracks of really enjoyable garage
punk.
We are between the
Voodoo Rhythmcatalogue, some more "mainstream" garage influences like
the Black Lips and faster rock'n punk bands like
The Bottomfeeders.
Oh and these guys are of course big fans of The Stooges (who
isn't?) as Keshi Heads long break clearly states.
Except for the beginning of Boil D Rice that I really find non
necessary, it's a classic but nice first release for a band which has
still a lot to offer.
Ohmns releases its
first EP
in 2018 on
Sentinel Records(run by a guy from Clinic) and the atmosphere is quite different from the tape.
With 3 songs between 4:45 and 6 min, things are getting longer and the
brits are clouding the issue.
It starts quite punk, it goes through some rock and grunge breaks before
diving again in a garage punk pool. It took me a while to really dig it,
but these Nirvana influenced parts (Love Buzz!), these
obsessive rhythm and surprising explosions of energy finally seduced me.
I don't really know where we are with this EP, maybe around Seattle in
1988? Maybe on a sped up Nuggets compilations? But who cares? We're
Ohmns!
And here is
III,
the latest (and best in my opinion) release of the band.
Another change of style here, the sound is more direct, less low-fi or
grungy, it's fast, it's full of energy, it's punk and it's great! It
stops, it explodes, it comes back, Ohmns sure knows how to play
catchy songs!... and a lot of gang vocals this time!
Only two songs are available on bandcamp (4 on the tape) out of a 7 songs recording session which was supposed to give birth a new EP (short LP?) this year... I don't know what happened but it looks like it's postponed for now... I am really looking forward to listen to the lot though!
