Taking the Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Kill Surf City’ and their cover of ‘Surfing USA’ as their starting point, slinging in a dash of Big Black and The Pixies and blasting it all through an amp setup the size of a tank, Odonis Odonis pack ‘Hollandaze’ with reverb-drenched surf-pop songs buried in squalls of guitars so trebly and overdriven as to render the chords indistinct, each slash of the strings resembling a breaker crashing against the shore in a storm rather than a musical instrument.
Cranking up the volume to create tinnitus-inducing washes of noise, ‘Blood Feast’ and ‘Tick Tock’ share common territory with A Place to Bury Strangers’ best work, while ‘Seedgaze’ snakes its trebly tendrils around a sauntering bassline to create a sound reminiscent of early New Order. ‘New World’ is a brain-buzzing mess of overloading distortion, before ‘Handle Bars’ brings the noise back to another surf pop tune, albeit one that’s half-buried under a tsunami of toppy guitar racket. ‘Ledged Up’ brings the twang and some truly explosive noise.
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Liable to induce long-term damage to the ears, Odonis Odonis sure know how to create a buzz.
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