Oxbow "Narcotic Story" LP
What
is there to say about California’s Oxbow? After seeing them at the Scion Rock
fest for the first time I didn’t know what to think, was this perhaps the best
or the worst thing that I’ve seen? I took a listen to their 2007 opus “Narcotic
Story” and I was actually amazed at how good and strange of a record it is. To
me the album seems to all intertwine together to create a tale of depression
angst and sadness amidst a bizarre musical composition of contemporary jazz,
noise rock, classical, avant garde and just plain weirdness. Eugene Robinson is
definitely an eccentric frontman who pours his emotions into Oxbow’s music with
his haunting personal lyrics, while Nikko Werner’s riffs matched with the
rhythm section of Dan Werner(bass) and Greg Davis(drums) round out this unusual masterpiece. I can
definitely say these guys are original as far as composition goes, with songs
like “Down a Stairway Backwards”, “Time Gentleman Time” and “The Geometry of
Business” definitely break away from the typical musical composition that
taints most contemporary mainstream music, Oxbow is far from that and even
though they might not get as much recognition as they deserve I definitely
respect these guys as musicians and artists.
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