Osh10’s self-titled debut album runs the gamut of their evocative powers, gradually winding down from a headstrong kick-off to a fragile mortality.Following vocal harmonies channeling a post-Women’s Lib Andrews Sisters, we are aurally pinballed through the teasing, chameleonic vocals of Aimee Chapman and bounced back on Mike MacGregor’s spine-bending bass line. A scuttling riff in the opening track may have rewired my cerebral cortex; any evidence of misfiring synapses in the following paragraphs is hereby excused.
From this sucker-punch start we suddenly resurface to find ourselves in altogether mellower territory. An ethereal, mirrored texture is the atmospheric result of a spare arrangement and an effective lack of emphasis on traditional form.
The transition to the reverberant, translucent twilight shimmer of the instrumental Sferics is like plunging off a bright island to sonically free-form through fluid light onto a darker and more isolated shore. This cool fragility pervades the close of the album, with clear and delicate lyrics wrapped in the same gauzy, watery musical weave.
The album has faint echoes of Björk, Coco Rosie and Ani di Franco at their most reflective.
A supernova burning brightest before the star burns out, Osh10’s varied landscape and curious and alluring musical approach promises ever more intrigue.
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Recorded and mixed by Myles Mumford at Atlantis Studio, VCA Soundlab and various rooms in the homes of Mike Myles and Aimee, Mastering by Adam Dempsey at Duluxe Mastering, Produced by osh10 with Creative Input of Myles Mumford