Blinded by oblivion is the latest album from Axis: Sova who have evolved from Brett Sova's Chicago based bedroom band into a three piece with Jeremy Freeze and Josh Johannpeter, this album was produced and recorder at Ty Segall's Harmonizer studio in the Santa Monica mountains of Southern California.
The album opens with People as a drum sample with guitars that are slowly layered over as the bass comes in, just before the vocals, to tell us the end of days predictions, how people will be the end of people, it opens out with the guitars get glammier, but with a proggy edge, being a bit reminiscent of Anton Barbeau.
Hardcore Maps is harder edged, driving fuzzy rock, driving you straight to hell. I'm A Ghost has a monster bassline, as the hologrammic vocals are somewhere between Pilot and Sparks, as they disappear inside the machine, the drum break is the point when you'd go nuts on the dancefloor especially when the guitar freaks out with them.
Trend Sets has a very 70's power pop rock edge to it, like The Fast or the Spiders From Mars without Bowie, as they try to set trends with speedy hyper rock guitars flanging your mind to dust.
Plastic Pageant Show is anthemic glam pop to watch the tragic site of another beauty Pageant making little girls old before there time. It's easy to tell this has been recorded by Ty Segall at his harmonizer Studio, this tune has his imprint all over it, in a very good way indeed.
Metallic Hearts is a cool building, revolving Psych pop song, for the introverted Beserkely records fan who loves harmony vocals, detailed flowery guitar parts, a stomping rhythm that gets harder as it goes on.
Join A Cult become a disciple of the lord of modern psychedelia Ty Segall, go all Segallion use every trick in his impressive studio army, nail that sound down, while wondering why you'd get gulled into joining David Koresh, Charlie Manson or Donald Trump's cults, although they don't name any cult leaders, rather sensibly, so make sure you dress like Ty, Listen to all music connected to Ty, copy his diet and the world will be a far better place.
Persuasion feels like they have spent too many evenings watching the film, the paranoia has set in, so have the chiming guitars, solidly freaky conspiracy harmonic waves of theories.
Writing Blind is a song I get totally, the thing about when you start writing a piece, either a song, a poem, script or review, you never really know how the piece will end. What will I really think about a record, will something surprise me, that I didn't hear listening without writing, what else has an effect, how are those guitars making me feel, should things distort more, should I be nice even if I don't want too, so many permutations.
That Dream Again that you sell out arenas, your songs are on all the coolest soundtracks and compilations, everywhere you go people are wearing Axis: Sova apparel, and you’ve recorded the perfect echo laden guitar part, everything sounds fantastic and cool once more as this draws the album to its conclusion, the beat won't let up, as those guitars go off once more, firing up your own personal dreamscape.
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