Boisterous Love is the debut album by Ogives Big Band who have evolved out of Ogives that began as a solo project for Ben Harris who has slowly kept adding more members so that for the album he is joined by Oli Cocup, Ben Holyoake, Steve Roberts, with John Stewart and Olly Carruthers apparently joining after the album was recorded, so I guess they may have added the odd overdub.
The album opens with them trying the ignition and once it fires Super Sanity springs into raucous life with throaty vocals and crushing riffs, asking questions about how the world is run, how to find any sanity in how things are, they want to know how you got your power, it's a true mystery to most of us how you got into power.
Chronic Thuggery has time shifting rifferarma, the awful violent reality unfolds in pulverizing bursts of noise and vocal gruffness, giving way to a rather prettier than expected breakdown, they plead for you to always remain alert to what's going down, it starts to build back up for the mental noise oblique throwdown. The second breakdown feels like fraught relief, a brief ceasefire as we await the next fusillade.
Brandishment has a sparse funky guitar and drum intro, before the riffs crash in and the vocals start to fight there way out of the pits of despair, they have been languishing in. Don't Raise your voice at them no you'll need to scream and bellow to be heard over the general cacophony, unless you only yell at them in the odd quiet bit, this goes all over the noise map, strained and despairing.
Annihilation has long feedback tonal drone intro, that blisters away before the brass section makes a surprise appearance, A didgeridoo like thrum echoes around the speakers, doom laden guitars attempt to crash in.
The album closes with the funk rock prog Absolute Unit that talks about the total desecration of self that comes from too much plastic surgery, all sorts of other problems are discussed, this goes into riffier parts, blasted beats crush your brain, you try to make sense of it all, the endless desire to have even more millions than you already have. The jazzy middle eight is an unexpected jazz metal treat eventually cacophony returns to bludgeon you into submission to the power of Ogives Big Band's doom metal trumpets.
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