O’Death’s newest album comes out today and despite our love for their first two, after one listen, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin has hands down become our favorite. It has a more maturing sound which takes the band’s dark undertones out into the open with haunting and demanding string, intriguing lyrics and an overall sense of doom and foreboding which still ends up to be an album to listen to over and over to, with songs, which seen live, require their signature dancing and whooping.
One of our favourite tracks is actually the free ‘Low Tide’ with it’s frenetic pace and picked at violin strings. ‘Fire on Peshtigo’, is the first track where you really hear singer Greg Jamie’s vocals: an insistent vibrato that you end up missing on the following song but comes back later in the album. We are also a fan of the halted waltz ‘Mountain Shifts,’ it reminds us of ghouls dancing on Halloween. The musical shift that ‘Angeline’ makes for the band also stands out. ‘Angeline’ is a song you might even hear early John Denver or Dolly Parton sing in some of their darkest hours, two of our favourite singer songwriters of all time, has made this our most listened to track off the album.
O’Death is one of our favourite acts to see live, we’ll be checking them out Thursday in Brooklyn and suggest you do the same:
O’DEATH TOUR DATES
October 30 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
October 31 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
November 1 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
November 2 – T.T. The Bears – Cambridge, MA
November 3 – II Motore – Montreal, QUE
November 4 – El Mocambo – Toronto, ONT
November 5 – Mohawk Place – Buffalo, NY
November 6 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
November 7 – Jakes Nightclub – Bloomington, IN
November 8 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
November 9 – Hideout – Chicago, IL
November 10 – 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN
November 11 – The Picador – Iowa City, IA
November 12 – The Jackpot Saloon – Lawrence, KS
November 13 – Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
November 14 – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
November 15 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
November 17 – Media Club – Vancouver, BC
November 18 – High Dive – Seattle, WA
November 19 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
November 20 – Jambalaya – Arcata, CA
November 21 – Bottom Of The Hill – San Francisco, CA
November 22 – Spaceland – Los Angeles, CA
November 23 – Casbah – San Diego, CA
November 24 – Modified Arts – Phoenix, AZ
November 26 – The Mohawk – Austin, TX
November 28 – Marquee – Tulsa, OK
November 29 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO
November 30 – Hi-Tone Café – Memphis, TN
December 2 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
December 3 – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
December 4 – Black Cat Backstage – Washington, DC
Official Website
O’Death on Myspace
O’Death on Imeem
Kemado Records
MP3: O’Death – Lowtide
