#zot2017
Heron Oblivion - The Capel (Self-Released, December 01, 2017)
I’ll be honest: I’ve read some very negative reviews about this band (there are also positive ones) and I find them absolutely unjustified. While everyone has their own tastes and expresses their own point of view, this is undoubtedly one of the most conventionally powerful yet authoritative psychedelic rock groups around. I think of those trendy definitions these days against the establishment. Indeed, I must say that if you publish on Sub Pop, I couldn’t care less: but if you produce good things, I’ll give you credit for it, and there’s no doubt that Heron Oblivion is a good band and has nothing to envy from the various Espers and Comets on Fire from whom the band members (Meg Baird, Ethan Miller, Noel Von Harmonson, Charlie Saufley) hail. This live recording from San Francisco on January 27, 2017, released last December, is even better than their debut LP, if possible. The band maintains an ecstatic tension throughout the performance, occasionally referencing a certain vintage folk psychedelia of the sixties and seventies, whose “antiquated” character is compensated by bursts of noise in the style of the best rock straddling the late eighties and early nineties. I think of stuff like Sonic Youth, but the ferocity of the sound and the extended fuzz at times bring to mind Bardo Pond (“Your Hollows”), just as “Rama” may remind one of Low. The track that concludes the album is a cover of Doug Sahm (“Crossroads”) and is another little gem from an album that isn’t unforgettable but where everything works as it should. Recorded by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz) and Eric Bauer (Ty Segall, Heron Oblivion, White Fence).
#thechapel #heronoblivion #alternative
Heron Oblivion - Your Hollows (Live)
Heron Oblivion - The Capel (Self-Released, December 01, 2017)
I’ll be honest: I’ve read some very negative reviews about this band (there are also positive ones) and I find them absolutely unjustified. While everyone has their own tastes and expresses their own point of view, this is undoubtedly one of the most conventionally powerful yet authoritative psychedelic rock groups around. I think of those trendy definitions these days against the establishment. Indeed, I must say that if you publish on Sub Pop, I couldn’t care less: but if you produce good things, I’ll give you credit for it, and there’s no doubt that Heron Oblivion is a good band and has nothing to envy from the various Espers and Comets on Fire from whom the band members (Meg Baird, Ethan Miller, Noel Von Harmonson, Charlie Saufley) hail. This live recording from San Francisco on January 27, 2017, released last December, is even better than their debut LP, if possible. The band maintains an ecstatic tension throughout the performance, occasionally referencing a certain vintage folk psychedelia of the sixties and seventies, whose “antiquated” character is compensated by bursts of noise in the style of the best rock straddling the late eighties and early nineties. I think of stuff like Sonic Youth, but the ferocity of the sound and the extended fuzz at times bring to mind Bardo Pond (“Your Hollows”), just as “Rama” may remind one of Low. The track that concludes the album is a cover of Doug Sahm (“Crossroads”) and is another little gem from an album that isn’t unforgettable but where everything works as it should. Recorded by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz) and Eric Bauer (Ty Segall, Heron Oblivion, White Fence).
#thechapel #heronoblivion #alternative
Heron Oblivion - Your Hollows (Live)
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