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Axis:Sova — Blinded by Oblivion

todayNovember 10, 2023 37

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The last time we caught up with Brett Sova he was bending the wild psychedelic overload of Motor Earth into the unsettling pop melodies of Shampoo You. That trend continues on steroids in this fourth full-length, the pandemic-shadowed, Ty Segall-produced Blinded by Oblivion, Sova’s most pop album yet.

Not that the New Pornographers should start looking over their shoulders. The guitar skree lurks in the background of even Sova’s most well-behaved songs, and the lyrical content is darker and more disturbing than you expect. “People,” for instance starts in a robot rumba of programmed rhythms, a minimalist foundation encroached on by swirls of sweetened, mid-range guitar. The words come in a soft, inoffensive warble, but watch for the kick in them: “People will be the end of people/people will snuff the light.”  Yeah, not the happiest stuff.

“I’m a Ghost” blares with visceral, tactile bass (that’s Jeremy Freeze) that roils your innards. Its drums, live this time and played by Josh Johannpeter, rattle around in a boxy beat and break out, once in a while, in exclamation points. Sova shreds in a trebly, careening style instantly familiar to anyone who grew up with 1970s guitar bands, but the singing is clipped and futuristic. It’s a weird mesh of Devo and Iron Maiden, but exciting. “Join a Cult,” later on, is constructed from the same materials, the ankle deep murk of bassy undertow, the sci-fi deadpan singing, the crazy things that happens when Sova’s guitar gets loose. These are songs, not jams, the trio is always blasting verse-chorus structures apart.

That last song’s chorus, by the way, has more than a whiff of producer Ty Segall in it. Like Fuzz or Ty Segall Band, it wraps thick, fuzzy blasts of overdriven guitar around the catchiest of melodies. Axis:Sova used to be more about texture and emotion. Now it’s more concerned with song structure. But you can do both. Ask Ty.

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