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“Major Tom revisited” (from Metro Times)
Not unlike the mysterious pillar suddenly appearing before the apes in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, the Detroit-based Oblisk is at once unknowable and undeniably present. Sounding like an even more disaffected Dean Wareham, lead singer-guitarist Asim Akhtar intones distance over ghostly organ and skittish drums, while guitars pick out delicate melodies or cyclic, oblong riffs.
More human than Hal, though, much of the time Oblisk is more like a musically fleshed-out version of Bowie’s Major Tom — not the song in which he resides but the character himself, if he were given the opportunity to present his outer-space plight over the course of an entire album. He’d certainly still be de-Earthed and possibly on the verge of panic, but ultimately accepting of his disconnection with wistful abandon. And when the music here works best, Oblisk charges onward behind Akhtar, much like Tom’s ever-hurtling spaceship — all roaring nitrogen, anti-gravity and sucking air.
Musically, Oblisk hasn’t forgotten the effectiveness of basic psychedelia; the left-right panning looped guitar of Empty Film Reel (yes, that’s a name) has all the effect of a sizable intake of nitrous oxide (please put the headphones on for this one), and as the unintelligible (backward?) vocals mumble desperately just below the surface and microscopic shards of guitar start pinpricking the skin, it just gets weirder.
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| FULL TRACK Epicenter | 5:32 |
| FULL TRACK Around The Sound | 4:04 |
| FULL TRACK Tiger Fighter | 8:25 |
| FULL TRACK Modern Day Villain | 3:47 |
| FULL TRACK Parallel | 5:26 |
| FULL TRACK Ancestors | 6:23 |
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