‘Abandoned In Spring’ is an album which is that increasingly rare thing, a deeply personal work of art that though created by someone else becomes fiercely your own in expression.
Tag: independent music
The Art And Craft Of Rule-Breaking
Recognisability and similarity bestow upon us the coziness of comfort. It’s our surprising variations, though, that make us interesting and push us to develop. What Obey Cobra has done on ‘Oblong’ is to wrap subversive art in the comfort wear of familiarity and done it well, for it’s a fine balance that the band has struck.
A Bouquet Of Excellence
To call this EP “lovely” would be to merely mouth a platitude. It is not “lovely”. It is indescribably beautiful in the perverse way that deep melancholy can be.
Satire For Our Times
…a grossly under-rated album when it should be hailed as an astonishing act of independence breaking away from the par for course. The tragedy of our world is such that years after its release its themes continue to be relevant and will do so, I’m afraid, for a long time to come.
DyingNote 