Shriekback - Oil & Gold
January 1985
Shriekback
Oil & Gold
Highlights:
Nemesis
As much as I enjoyed the disco-synth of their last record...I love O&G more.
They are unabashed and unapologetic about their love of this sound.
When it’s big like “everything that rises must come down” and “Nemesis” it’s a blast, when it shifts gears like it does on the haunting “The Big Hush” and “Faded Flowers” and “The Only Thing That Shines” it’s so assured and hypnotic that I buy in.
And the double shot ending of “Hammerheads” and “Coelocanth” elevate this record in unexpected ways.
Oil & Gold is more assured than ______, and because of that it also sounds like an album they are making for themselves. It almost works the entire time.
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