New Releases: Ex-Vöid
As if the band's metal-sounding name wasn't already enough to put listeners off the scent, the album cover wonderfully suggests a thrashy black metal record that couldn't be further from what lies within.
Sure, the album kicks off with a squeal of feedback, and there's plenty of post-punk distortion... but at heart it's another burst of 90s-reminiscent giddy jangle pop, highlighted by sweet male/female vocal harmonies, somewhere between early Teenage Fanclub and Mary Lou Lord, or maybe Lemonheads/Juliana Hatfield.
While their superb 2022 debut was punchier, full of catchy noise pop with intermittent indulgences in straight punk, a short slab of pithy tracks rarely extending past the two-minute mark, this one stretches out. The songs are a bit longer; the production a little less clean, with added fizzy distortion giving some tracks more of a shoegaze ambience. But the chewy bubblegum hooks remain, hum-along pop beneath an energetic, noisy gauze. You get some gentler, straighter jangle ("Nightmare") and some more boisterous post-punk ("Pinhead"), but most of the tracks land somewhere in between.
Buy it on Bandcamp.
"Nightmare":
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