Obnox-Know America (2015)
Obnox-Know America
(2015)
“Live your beliefs and and you can turn the world around.”
Henry David Thoreau
Ghost Writer
A couple of days ago in this space, I wrote about Death,
those proto punk brothers who started playing their own brand of loud and tough rock in
Detroit long before punk as we would know it reared it's ugly head.
Know America, the latest record by Lamont Thomas aka Obnox sounds just as if Death listened to much to Motown music and at the same time they listened a lot to the Stooges, an amazing and volatile mix of proto punk and soul shows in this incredible rock n roll record that appears to belong to another time and age.
Grease opens this incredible recording, an hallucinating tale about a couple of guys hijacking a radio station in order to get their music heard, all this resulting in quiet sonic spectacle that at first stance looks like the impossible mix of The Stooges and Outkast with soulful vocals and primitive but intense music recorded as cheap as possible.
Another piece of pure raw power is unleashed as Cracked Up with its buzzing drones and completely fucked up drums, I imagine this is perhaps the real sound Iggy Pop heard in his head when he conceived the original version of the Stooges, the one that featured ukulele and card boxes as drums, all this while Menocause give us a crazy and wild turn into pure noisy psychedelia.
Lo fi is one of the principal wild cards in this record and it is put on mayor display on the beautiful titled Loudpack along very loud screaming guitars creating a really groove heavy song with unbelievable dynamics.
Village Idiots gets very oscure with almost unintelligible vocals and very early Frank Zappa and the Mothers like sonics, and choruses, while on the other side Freaky sounds like a very fucked up live recording of hardcore greats the Bad Brains
The wide array of mainly black music influences Thomas uses for the creation of this records I simply too good to be true, this is of course one of the great records of the year, capable more than others if creating it's very own musical universe, one that has nothing to do with today music scene, this is the music of a definitely great music visionary, one that is capable of creating great music, a great concept or storyline and making an awesome collage of influences making a unique sound dense as hell.
What if Thomas could get behind the mix board of the next Death record? Oh my god! Beware!
Know America, the latest record by Lamont Thomas aka Obnox sounds just as if Death listened to much to Motown music and at the same time they listened a lot to the Stooges, an amazing and volatile mix of proto punk and soul shows in this incredible rock n roll record that appears to belong to another time and age.
Grease opens this incredible recording, an hallucinating tale about a couple of guys hijacking a radio station in order to get their music heard, all this resulting in quiet sonic spectacle that at first stance looks like the impossible mix of The Stooges and Outkast with soulful vocals and primitive but intense music recorded as cheap as possible.
Another piece of pure raw power is unleashed as Cracked Up with its buzzing drones and completely fucked up drums, I imagine this is perhaps the real sound Iggy Pop heard in his head when he conceived the original version of the Stooges, the one that featured ukulele and card boxes as drums, all this while Menocause give us a crazy and wild turn into pure noisy psychedelia.
Lo fi is one of the principal wild cards in this record and it is put on mayor display on the beautiful titled Loudpack along very loud screaming guitars creating a really groove heavy song with unbelievable dynamics.
Village Idiots gets very oscure with almost unintelligible vocals and very early Frank Zappa and the Mothers like sonics, and choruses, while on the other side Freaky sounds like a very fucked up live recording of hardcore greats the Bad Brains
The wide array of mainly black music influences Thomas uses for the creation of this records I simply too good to be true, this is of course one of the great records of the year, capable more than others if creating it's very own musical universe, one that has nothing to do with today music scene, this is the music of a definitely great music visionary, one that is capable of creating great music, a great concept or storyline and making an awesome collage of influences making a unique sound dense as hell.
What if Thomas could get behind the mix board of the next Death record? Oh my god! Beware!
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