Dead Obies - Montreal Sud - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A remarkable sense of brevity. This is the first thing that strikes when discovering the new material of the (now) quintet the desire to go straight to the point. With shorter songs, less triturated lyrics, much more pop melodies, almost as pop as the ones we discovered on the amazing microalbum Air Max that the band had offered in the spring of 2017, one year after they had thrown away the daring and complex Gesamtkunstwerk.Less progressive and left-field than it's predecessor, Dead Obies' third album is no less diverse, torn between the pop refrain and leaping rhythm of the first single Run Away and the low-frequency scraping of the corrosive André. And in between these two extremes, a few trapy flights of fancy, Royautés, F1 and 24.

Scott Goff - Very Intense Music of [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/17/1995

Dead Obies, known for the intermingling of English and French in their lyrics, have decided to sidestep the language questions that have followed them since their inception entirely by giving their critically acclaimed second full-length album a highfalutin German name. InchKunstwerk means work of art, and Gesamt means total,Inch explained MC 20Some (real name Charles-André Vincelette). InchSo a total work of art. An oeuvre d'art totale, which is an esthetic concept brought up mainly by Richard Wagner in Germany in the 19th century.Inch