OXBOW - s&d

'let me be a woman' came out in 1997 or 1995 (can't remember which)... 'an evil heat' is their second release since that album.

sx

The rest, vaguely avant garde metal. OK, respected it, liked it even, but never went back.

sonically? so is your mother.

cheers,
Eugene

ps....hahahahah....sorry. that was too easy to pass up.

"sonically ordinary"? hahahahah...oh man....if you've heard a better record than The Narcotic Story this year well I'd like to listen to it...so please feel free to recommend...

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The Battles record is better. But that's it.

^ lololololol

Seek:

Serenade in Red
An Evil Heat
Narcotic Story

how not to be a pussy, by eugene oxbow!

http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Everything-Wanted-Ass-Kicking-Afraid/dp/0061189227

http://a937.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/76/l_091c0cf815fe16f37b95727118159440.jpg

Listening to Let Me Be A Woman right now.

always a good decision.

That Fight books is pretty great. I wish that the Travel Channel would have a Dhani Travels The Globe And Plays Sports-stylee show with Eugene Robinson Travelling The Globes And Starts Fights With People.

russell crowe got there first.

http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/southpark2.jpg

tbf eugene would wreck russell crowe

indeed. and I'd pay handsomely to see it.

listening to a live clip of theirs on youtube and can't help but think it's a Shred vid.

Has anyone read Robinson's second book? It's some Crews/Spillane/Leonard hardboiled caper affair.

hey, Oxbow came here! And was cool about it.

Eugene should post here on the reg

I love An Evil Heat

Giving Fuckfest a spin after seeing it mentioned in another thread earlier..feeling it.

listening to a live clip of theirs on youtube and can't help but think it's a Shred vid.

― jaxon, Monday, August 3, 2009 10:37 PM

^^

chuck dukowski of blag flag and eugene have a new band!

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/03/chuck-dukowski-from-black-flag-has-a-new-band-with-eugene-robinson/

Eugene's new Lando Calrissian look is awesome.

haha yeah i thought that too

i got up the courage to introduce myself once after seeing oxbow, he was really nice and personable even after being super intimidating onstage for an hour+

they're playing here next month (oxbow not black face)

But alas Black Face has broken up.

Meantime Eugene has a duet with Lydia Lunch on the new Strings of Consciousness album, "Home is Where the Hurt Is." It is appropriately evil, melodramatic and threatening sounding.

Sorry, make that "Hurt Is Where the Home is."

eugene's having an online sale of stuff

http://theconnextion.com/oxbow/garagesale/

I was just listening to "12 Galaxies" the acoustic live record a couple of days ago, so good. I am always a bit surprised how effectively they are able to convey heaviness and menace in an acoustic setting.

The Thin Black Duke being mastered today. This album has been 'coming soon' for ages now but maybe this time we're finally getting somewhere.

https://youtu.be/VBLgUgyMcW0

The Thin Black Duke being mastered today. This album has been 'coming soon' for ages now but maybe this time we're finally getting somewhere.

yeah this record rules

can't wait to hear it
thought this was interesting, them using such a big-time producer for such strange music (wish more underground bands valued production this much)

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/producer-joe-chiccarelli-isnt-just-a-legend-hes-also-the-connection-between-morrissey-u2-and-oxbow

I was going to wait to listen it until my lp arrived but I couldn't wait and streamed it this wknd, a great record.

The impression I got from the new Quietus interview is Chiccarelli wasn't their first choice, they wanted Visconti

Said interview:

http://thequietus.com/articles/22360-oxbow-interview-eugene-s-robinson

I do love this bit:

Eugene S Robinson: I’ve been kinda thinking about this idea that records made early in the careers of people who make music, a lot of the time and especially in the idiom in which we’re working, they’re a product of hysteria. They’re largely akin to somebody rushing in and screaming, ‘Your apartment’s on fire!’ or ‘Your car’s on fire!’ or some variation thereof. Most of the time, if you live life beyond the initial records, in your actual lives, you could functionally say, ‘Take it easy. Things are going to be OK.’ And then they go on to the next record where they try to duplicate that experience of hysteria from the first record. The difference is that if you look at 30 years of record-making, eventually you evolve into a non-hysterical orientation about life – but it’s no less crucial… because it all ends the same fucking way. I don’t find that joyful at all. I don’t find the prospect of it, just because it happens to everybody else – I’d like to recall Yossarian from Catch-22 – how can that possibly make a difference, that it happens to everybody else?

An announcement (via Eugene's FB account):

As promised: a THIN BLACK BOOK announcement.

The plan was this: extremely LIMITED edition of a companion volume to THIN BLACK DUKE, an 80-plus page deep dive treatise. A third would be sold to the people who most immediately backed it, a third would be sold during the European tour and the remaining third would be sold at our soon-to-be announced American shows.

BUT we undersold in countries where English is not the primary language AND we now realize that because of the way we have to tour America (Friday-Saturday-Sunday fly-out jaunts until we cover the entire country), we'd have to warehouse the remainder, which is something specifically WE DO NOT want to do.

SO....the 67 books we have? We will sell. PayPal $25 to Pinko95014 at yahoo dot com ($20 more if you live outside of America).

Orders that actually have shipping addresses? Will get shipped first. And orders will be shipped weekly.

This offer is only good until July 1st, 2017. If the books all sell before then, your money will be refunded. And if you hate PayPal hidden cash, checks and money orders can be sent to CFY, PO Box 19271, Stanford, Ca. 94309.

No stupid questions. Now tell the world.

The book is fantastic; I highly recommend buying one

I just sent in $25... Hope I make the cut!

Yeah the book is very cool. I am glad that in this era of ephemeral digital collections that Oxbow really went all out making a physical artifact.

this album is really something i hope ppl pay attention to it

next in line to say this album fucking rules.

I just missed them play in London cos I was away. They're playing Supersonic in Birmingham in June it seems, but I can't see anyone is gonna put them on again in London then. That can't be right, surely.

Philly show in July! Woo!

agreed, this record is fantastic - had a really good listen this afternoon. friend was saying that live suffered from a lack of the album horns and strings (which obv wasn't a problem for the previous albums).

Saw them live and finally bought the vinyl

This is so amazing sounding

Okay, this live album with Peter Brotzmann is phenomenal.

really looking forward to listening to this. i’ve been caning the narcotic story recently. amazing album.

As a big Oxbow & Brotz fan I am amazed that it is even better than I expected (now if only the physical copies would ship...)

(now if only the physical copies would ship...)

I've emailed the label twice and gotten no response. I'm getting cranky.

Huh, I ordered the CD along with a few other albums through the Trost bandcamp on October 31st and got it about a week or so ago.

Yeah, I didn't order it from Trost, unfortunately — they said Sleeping Giant Glossolalia was putting out a US CD version, so I ordered that one.

As a big Oxbow & Brotz fan I am amazed that it is even better than I expected (now if only the physical copies would ship...)

Long story short I finally got my lp copy last night and it sounds great, still kind of can't believe it exists

"Love's Holiday" out in July
https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/album/loves-holiday-out-7-21-23

New single out today, "Icy White & Crystalline." Sounds like a forgotten DGC band from the 90s. Love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz6RrzuR9w

Nice, super excited for this.

As a side note, I went to go pre-order this from Ipecac's bandcamp page and thought I'd also grab that Dave Lombardo album. It's sold out on every format already, LP, CD, everything. It came out May 5th - that seems insanely fast. It appears I can get it from Amazon, so whatever, but I'd rather than money go to the label than Bezos. Anyway, I'm seeing that a lot more frequently lately that labels are selling out of things really quickly. The new Blood Ceremony being another example - just released on May 5th and every format (LP and CD) completely sold out on Rise Above's website. Are that many labels just doing miniscule runs these days? Just seems a bad look for a hyped new album to be completely sold out from the source less that two weeks post release.

I guess just a good reminder to make sure you snag something the instant you see a pre-order pop up.

This happens a lot! It’s frustrating.

you gotta preorder before the band even forms

It is super frustrating. I get things like the exclusive, limited vinyl colors getting snatched up right away, but I'm seeing it way too often for literally every physical format. Oh you wanted a copy of that album that came out last week? Too late, you missed it!

I can only imagine how frustrating it has to be for a band...

had a great first listen to Love’s Holiday just now, after prepping by going back through their albums this week (v rewarding). Dead Ahead is a great opener/single, and it’s an amusing approach how after the first two tracks they move p much exclusively into their slow, stygian power mode.

i like the continuing move into melodic ballad trappings, even if a couple of times i had a fleeting sense of more recent nick cave (not a fan). but choral and keyboard set off the muscular torment and pent-up force. it *sounds* great. the group are in v good form and looking forward to seeing them in september.

I love the new album, it is Numinous and Forbidding in all the best ways

yep agreed.

also the track titles are some of the best I've seen in a while. how has no band begun an album with 'Dead Ahead' before

thankfully the song does that title justice

as a means of saying sorry to Fizzles I am getting into their earlier stuff

King Of The Jews is fantastic. Angel is one of the great rock songs maybe

Eugene pls log back into ILX btw, that was fun

King of the Jews is I think my favourite.

you know when they describe a modern album as fire and brimstone because it's kind of noisy, yet kind of trad, and kind of fearsome? yeah well those albums aren't fire and brimstone, this is