Ono Scream - Ono Scream (2017) EN

Uncommonly long as for this blog, the album by Ono Scream from Belgium couldn't be missed out here.Because it's worth attention from the first to the fourteenth track. OS is a project by Bart Willems known as a frontman of Aparaat, who in his solo works combines inspirations from his youth (Bauhaus, Fad Gadgets, Simple Minds) and today (Soft Moon, Tropic of Cancer) and filters it with his own, very dark, perception.

The album immediately shows its best side as "Hollow Man" is one of the best songs of this month for me. Shoegazing vocal combined with catchy coldwave and melodies and, can't be left unnoticed, depressive lyrics do the trick. later it is also unsettling in "That Salty Taste" and more airy in "This Endless Walking", in which there is also a beautiful female vocal. Another great track with quite straightforward message is "What Have They Done".

The whole album balances between moody shoegaze and protest-songing coldwave. That's why dull and icy voice of Willems fits it perfectly. As well as twitching in some places and droning in other guitars in the background.

"Ono Scream" costs 9 EUR.

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