Thanks to Thin Black Duke's lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from frontman Eugene Robinson, eminent underground rock outfit Oxbow has delivered a comeback album that leaves me lost for words for all the right reasons.

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Thin Black Duke is the seventh studio album by American experimental rock band Oxbow. It was released on May 5, 2017 through Hydra Head Records.

Thin Black Duke" is the seventh studio album by avant-rock group Oxbow, issued by Hydra Head Records in 2017 on vinyl, cd and digital. Vinyl pressings: 1st pressing of 1500 copies:.

Thin Black Duke isn’t their finest album – for my money, that’d have to be 1995’s Steve Albini-produced Let Me Be A Woman – but it’s still one of the most thrilling, galvanising records I’ve heard in recent months. 10 years after "The Narcotic Story", Oxbow has not aged, even though the guys are fifty years old. Oxbow has all it takes for his career to be a shocking sound experience: to keep his music safe from the blues, nothing is heavier than rock, but especially for vocal experiments of Eugene S. Robinson. Well, with "Thin Black Duke", in 2017, what is certain is that these guys from San Francisco have not smoothed their music, nor lost in creativity. A middle-aged Oxbow, in fact,.

Oxbow Thin Black Duke (Hydra Head Records). Somewhere down the line, the word innovative must have been used to describe the kind of legacy that Oxbow has carved out for them, the term fearless deserves inclusion in that description too. Oxbow, are two things: an uncompromising live experience and an unpredictably eccentric unit when studio tape begins to roll. For both these forward-thinking platforms, old habits die hard as both returns in partnership for the release of Oxbow’s newest studio album Thin Black Duke. Having always been a group that is seemingly comfortable with making themselves uncomfortable, the Bay Area experimental rock quartet continue on with that approach which began with the Fuckfest release back in 1989 and has been further pushing out their artistic thresholds since. 2 May ·. A wide-ranging interview not solely about OXBOW but a "comfortable" window into the head of the singer for OXBOW. Which is probably a better place to be than other places on his body.

Finally, after 10 years, the Bay Area band Oxbow, is coming back next May with a new LP going by the name "Thin Black Duke". This effort will be released once again under former Isis frontman Aaron Turner's label: Hydra Head. What we can get out from their single "Cold & Well-Lit Place is that it's gonna be influenced by classical music as previous albums did.

Listen to Thin Black Duke by Oxbow on Deezer. Total duration:38 min. 01. Cold & Well-Lit Place.