Oidio
Non regredire

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OIDIO

alternative rock and psychedelia band,

presents the album

NON REGREDIRE

Self-produced

https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/album/6VUspWHxIXCSyt4lJpRHhc?si=xf_Zk_nGSZedZzqsQqgDaQ

The beautiful punk cover of Cuccurucucù Paloma (by Franco Battiato but originally written by a Mexican singer-songwriter in 1954, Tomas Mendez) would be enough to perk up our ears and listen to this album which, mind you, is not a punk album (or at least in attitude it certainly is, but not in a strictly musical sense). “Zanzare”, the track that opens the album, is a thrilling piece that owes a debt to Queens Of The Stone Age, although in the second part of the track it veers towards a schizophrenic noise where the vocals become more of a shouted narrative in the angry style of Pier Paolo Capovilla of Il Teatro degli Orrori. In several instances, the rhythm slows down to build tracks with a circular flow. “Hscata”, for example, almost seems like a slow nursery rhyme that then gives way to the band's ever-gritty guitar riffs. But it's in the track “L’antagonista” that the band demonstrates its full ability to play by controlling and letting the tracks flow, in this case from a lethal punk gallop to an intense rock bridge that then makes room for the guitarist's never predictable solos. A well-played album, with a mix of fierceness and moments of sweetness, to watch out for also due to its very “antagonistic” lyrics.