TVAM: Excessive Artwork Lite
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Accessible from twenty eighth October
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TVAM (aka Joe Oxley) follows up the acclaimed debut Psychic Knowledge with a wealthy headrush of futuristic psychedelic area rock that hurtles by means of the panorama with a glowing array of expertise says Wayne AF Carey…
It’s 4 years now because the pre pandemic launch of his debut album and it’s been well worth the wait. The one man machine of TVAM has hunkered down and strapped on his spacesuit to come back up trumps with a shimmering set of tunes that set the psych shoe gaze scene alight. You simply can’t pin this sound into one style actually whenever you dive in.
Excessive Artwork Lite takes a special tilt to its predecessor by emphasising the speedy and the private. The colors are blown-out and the brightness is cranked up. TVAM’s tackle things like function fashions, fictional film character tropes, and fables of excellent and evil, are all tackled with the identical suspicious cynicism however this time with an pressing perception within the human situation. A heady mixture of Black Mirror’s fashionable fables, JG Ballard’s gated communities of sun-drenched wealth, and Mulholland Drive’s boulevard of damaged daydreams, Excessive Artwork Lite affords an all-inclusive package deal of redemption.
Whereas his first album targeted on the unknown influences over our surrounds and the data that permeates our unconscious, Excessive Artwork Lite has a wider, extra vibrant, though no much less disconcerting, remit. In line with Oxley, Excessive Artwork Lite centres upon the tales, characters and beliefs we take up and the way we latch onto these concepts to information us by means of our lives.
“It’s additionally about how straightforward it’s to really feel so far-off from our heroes,” Oxley expands. “The burden of our personal expectations. The disappointment on the core that, as we age, our choices slender, the universe shrinks, and we discover ourselves within the shallow finish.”
Future Flesh opens the proceedings with a haunting church fashion organ backed with some eerie early Spiritualized results, then proceeds to crash into an area rock melee of dreamy vocals that float round your headspace. A melting psychedelic rush. Each Day In Each Approach has a crunchy soiled glam riff that holds all of it along with a prime heavy hip hop drum beat that will get the pinnacle nodding. Joe’s vocals simply soften out and in to create a distorted dreamy mess which is dissipated by the sound of seaside waves gently brushing the sand on Membership Nautico (Half 1) which then goes into somebody diving underwater, then melds into the electro kraut rock sound of the wonderful Piz Buin which has been hammered by 6 Music. A correct pleasure to the ears with it’s enterprise into shoe gaze dream pop that seems like a terrific acid journey.
Double Lucifer kicks in with a pleasant little bit of soiled synth bass that sounds sleazy in a JAMC means with a naughty guitar line and a Gillespie kind vocal after a powerful spliff or two. It appears like nothing else and deserves repeat play in any futuristic venue with smoke and lights in a encompass sound area warp. Shallow Ends is a movie noir soundtrack that chills with it’s sluggish tempo and likewise harks again to the brilliance of Porsche Majeure. The place Black Mirror is talked about earlier, that is the right noise for a kind of dystopian tales we all know and love. Darkish but stunning sonics that soften the thoughts in the event you shut your eyes with the lights off.
Semantics is a cracker of a tune. A great deal of techno influences combined with a chic floating vocal and an ode to the trippiest area rock from the thoughts of Jason Pierce however with it’s distinctive slant which Oxley owns, backed with a intelligent little bit of footage within the video proven beneath. Say Something goes again into sci-fi mode with that floating sound that provides the picture of area boots hitting new territory in sluggish movement. The sly little riff that goes out and in sounds superb with a distorted crunch that hits the spot. Host harks again to his debut album with the sounds I described again then as one thing from Assault On Precinct 13 and early John Carpenter soundtracks that also sound fucking ace right this moment. A pleasant mellow sonic blast of ingenious stuff. Membership Nautico (Half 2) is one other quick clip of a dive underwater coming again to the floor that emerges again to the sound of (Half 1) earlier than bursting into the closing album tile monitor Excessive Artwork Lite, which reaches new heights within the sound of future shoegaze. A vibrant monitor stuffed with concepts that sounds superb whenever you’re immersed in it. A trippy piece of artwork that works on all ranges.
Troublesome second album? We’re having none of that bollocks at Louder Than Conflict Towers. Joe Oxley has created an album that’s significantly better than it’s predecessor. Majestic on all counts and a significant effort at stealing the crown from Jason Pierce. Stuffed with concepts and way more to come back from this maverick of movie soundtrack songwriting that provides the likes of Mogwai a run for his or her cash. A real expertise with innovation and an ear for pysch area rock we’ve not heard for some time. God bless TVAM.
Tour dates:
22/11/22 – Hyde Park E-book Membership – LEEDS
24/11/22 – The White Lodge – MANCHESTER
30/11/22 – Inexperienced Door Retailer – BRIGHTON
01/12/22 – Oslo – LONDON
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Phrases by Wayne Carey, Critiques Editor for Louder Than Conflict. His creator profile is right here
