Love In The Mist by Holton’s Opulent Oog will be released on 7th February Vinyl, CD and DL. It features Neil Halstead, Joe Bennett, Robin Bennett, Ian McCutcheon, Tom Crook, Paul Blewett & Roger Proctor.
See them on the 2nd March at The Slaughtered Lamb in London.
For their second collection, Holton’s Opulent Oog gathered throughout last Spring/Autumn. They’ve dreamt up a spellbinder. Songs of mystery and imagination. Beatific, emotional, transporting, brimming with dreamy melodies and full of darkness and light – this is a special album.
The magic ingredients are Spanish guitar, violins, dubby keyboards and beautifully deft percussion. The album has a distinctive, carefully wrought sound, but it’s the variety within that sound, the sting and mystery of the lyrics that are so strong.
The album wears its contradictions on its sleeve. Confidant, ambitious tunes about fragilty and danger. Homilies to love and solidarity shot through with separation and melancholy. Here, a beguiling waltz, somewhere between menace and melancholy; there, a foray into psych-out chaos and back again; elsewhere joyful poppy sing-alongs. As if the Bonzos showed up to jam with the Beatles during the White Album. At times a moving, noble, trumpet-led melody should take it all to Mexico, but the album stays hovering over English landscapes, English hopes and dreams. This music couldn’t come from anywhere else.
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…… and in other Mojave 3 news, Ian passes us the following exciting titbit “btw the Band Of Horses tour was great and we’re now thinking of possibly recording some new tunes! will keep you posted”
NEIL HALSTEAD is playing a show in london on 22nd July 2010, he will be supported by Big Potato band, the superb Common Prayer headed by Jason Sebastian Russo, a talented musician some may know from his previous exploits in bands Hopewell and Mercury Rev who are in the uk to support their new record There Is A Mountain.