Portland, Oregon rock band Oxcart’s second studio album ‘The Equation’ streams a flurry of lo-fi, fuzz-rock, with atmospheric soundscapes. Shifting direction continually, Oxcart purvey anything from Stooges CBGB’s heyday punk in ‘Tetherball’ to Metallica-like crashing riffs and scratchy space-out rock in ‘Equation’, drawing further influences from, Canadian band Our Lady Peace and Queens of the Stoneage. Savvy sax playing in ‘Officer’ and demonic howls of “Give me father back his money” in ‘Gambler Pt.1′ all add to this heavy cocktail of scuzzy -sometimes hair-metal- bombardment of terrific proportions. Even the outtakes of first, William Churchill (’Genesis’) and then a German officer in (’Explosions’) concluding the album, fleshes out its atmospherics, culminating in a series of tantalising crescendo-focusing rock. In a day of listening to sub-standard albums, a pedestal was duly pulled out for this piece of apocalyptic-rock.
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AshMeikle is the co-founder of Shout4Music. Experienced in online and print publications, He has written in both London and New York for publications such as; Q Online, SUP Magazine/Online, TourDates, Disorder Magazine, Disappear Here Magazine, along with Whisperin & Hollerin.
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