Crooner qui coule sous les clous
Oï les Ox
Crooner qui coule sous les clous
Boomkat Product Review:
Unreal début from French musician, artist, writer and dramaturge, Oï les Ox; basically one of the craftiest albums we’ve heard all of this damned 2020 - riddled with melodic ohrwurms - a massive RIYL Trevor Duncan’s La Jetée soundtrack to the most enigmatic oddities from Broadcast to Julia Holter, Teresa Winter to Nozomu Matsumoto and Rian Treanor’s disruptive rhythms.
Oï les Ox is the stage name of Aude Van Wyller, and ‘Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ (translation: A crooner that sinks under nails) is a sci-fi opera about an anonymous civilian consumer and a totalitarian governor who forces people to dance to broadcasts of strange pop ballads and mutant electronics. The hour-long, four part album revolves a libretto written by the Brussels-based artist in her native French, and performed in shapeshifting guises, all set to incredibly crystalline yet mercurial synth arrangements and truly devilish drum programming. It encompasses nods to everything from coldwave to chamber music, æther folk, chanson and synth-pop in thee most beguiling style, all woven together by a spellbinding vocal presence and needlepoint arps that patently place her music in a déjà entendu-familiar, but exceedingly rare, other dimension.
Across its four parts, field recordings elide with original synthesis and multiple vocal personas to spell out a flux of fleeting emotions with breathtaking subtlety and sensuality. Each part contains an album’s worth of ideas, persistently altering the scenery, lighting and style with inimitable deftness between passages of puckered songcraft, sound collage, and dance music abstraction that betrays a shockingly keen reading and transmutation of classic and contemporary vernacular into a singular, cinematic/operatic whole.
Just as the rave gods commanded exeunt the dance at the start of 2020, ’Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ arrived to us like a dream demo, quickly becoming a go-to album that totally absorbed and distracted from the needling ambient anxieties outside. By the time summer came around, though, the album weirdly recalled the trauma of first lockdown too palpably, and we genuinely couldn’t listen to it any more. However with autumn’s 2nd lockdown, and a renewed optimism, we had better come to terms with isolation, and the hypnotic, inquisitive nature and elusive beauty of Oï les Ox’s music, and her captivating story-telling now finds its place in the world as a life-affirming expression of modern eeriness that’s dead hard to shake once experienced.
View more
Boomkat Product Review:
Unreal début from French musician, artist, writer and dramaturge, Oï les Ox; basically one of the craftiest albums we’ve heard all of this damned 2020 - riddled with melodic ohrwurms - a massive RIYL Trevor Duncan’s La Jetée soundtrack to the most enigmatic oddities from Broadcast to Julia Holter, Teresa Winter to Nozomu Matsumoto and Rian Treanor’s disruptive rhythms.
Oï les Ox is the stage name of Aude Van Wyller, and ‘Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ (translation: A crooner that sinks under nails) is a sci-fi opera about an anonymous civilian consumer and a totalitarian governor who forces people to dance to broadcasts of strange pop ballads and mutant electronics. The hour-long, four part album revolves a libretto written by the Brussels-based artist in her native French, and performed in shapeshifting guises, all set to incredibly crystalline yet mercurial synth arrangements and truly devilish drum programming. It encompasses nods to everything from coldwave to chamber music, æther folk, chanson and synth-pop in thee most beguiling style, all woven together by a spellbinding vocal presence and needlepoint arps that patently place her music in a déjà entendu-familiar, but exceedingly rare, other dimension.
Across its four parts, field recordings elide with original synthesis and multiple vocal personas to spell out a flux of fleeting emotions with breathtaking subtlety and sensuality. Each part contains an album’s worth of ideas, persistently altering the scenery, lighting and style with inimitable deftness between passages of puckered songcraft, sound collage, and dance music abstraction that betrays a shockingly keen reading and transmutation of classic and contemporary vernacular into a singular, cinematic/operatic whole.
Just as the rave gods commanded exeunt the dance at the start of 2020, ’Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ arrived to us like a dream demo, quickly becoming a go-to album that totally absorbed and distracted from the needling ambient anxieties outside. By the time summer came around, though, the album weirdly recalled the trauma of first lockdown too palpably, and we genuinely couldn’t listen to it any more. However with autumn’s 2nd lockdown, and a renewed optimism, we had better come to terms with isolation, and the hypnotic, inquisitive nature and elusive beauty of Oï les Ox’s music, and her captivating story-telling now finds its place in the world as a life-affirming expression of modern eeriness that’s dead hard to shake once experienced.
Boomkat Product Review:
Unreal début from French musician, artist, writer and dramaturge, Oï les Ox; basically one of the craftiest albums we’ve heard all of this damned 2020 - riddled with melodic ohrwurms - a massive RIYL Trevor Duncan’s La Jetée soundtrack to the most enigmatic oddities from Broadcast to Julia Holter, Teresa Winter to Nozomu Matsumoto and Rian Treanor’s disruptive rhythms.
Oï les Ox is the stage name of Aude Van Wyller, and ‘Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ (translation: A crooner that sinks under nails) is a sci-fi opera about an anonymous civilian consumer and a totalitarian governor who forces people to dance to broadcasts of strange pop ballads and mutant electronics. The hour-long, four part album revolves a libretto written by the Brussels-based artist in her native French, and performed in shapeshifting guises, all set to incredibly crystalline yet mercurial synth arrangements and truly devilish drum programming. It encompasses nods to everything from coldwave to chamber music, æther folk, chanson and synth-pop in thee most beguiling style, all woven together by a spellbinding vocal presence and needlepoint arps that patently place her music in a déjà entendu-familiar, but exceedingly rare, other dimension.
Across its four parts, field recordings elide with original synthesis and multiple vocal personas to spell out a flux of fleeting emotions with breathtaking subtlety and sensuality. Each part contains an album’s worth of ideas, persistently altering the scenery, lighting and style with inimitable deftness between passages of puckered songcraft, sound collage, and dance music abstraction that betrays a shockingly keen reading and transmutation of classic and contemporary vernacular into a singular, cinematic/operatic whole.
Just as the rave gods commanded exeunt the dance at the start of 2020, ’Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ arrived to us like a dream demo, quickly becoming a go-to album that totally absorbed and distracted from the needling ambient anxieties outside. By the time summer came around, though, the album weirdly recalled the trauma of first lockdown too palpably, and we genuinely couldn’t listen to it any more. However with autumn’s 2nd lockdown, and a renewed optimism, we had better come to terms with isolation, and the hypnotic, inquisitive nature and elusive beauty of Oï les Ox’s music, and her captivating story-telling now finds its place in the world as a life-affirming expression of modern eeriness that’s dead hard to shake once experienced.
Boomkat Product Review:
Unreal début from French musician, artist, writer and dramaturge, Oï les Ox; basically one of the craftiest albums we’ve heard all of this damned 2020 - riddled with melodic ohrwurms - a massive RIYL Trevor Duncan’s La Jetée soundtrack to the most enigmatic oddities from Broadcast to Julia Holter, Teresa Winter to Nozomu Matsumoto and Rian Treanor’s disruptive rhythms.
Oï les Ox is the stage name of Aude Van Wyller, and ‘Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ (translation: A crooner that sinks under nails) is a sci-fi opera about an anonymous civilian consumer and a totalitarian governor who forces people to dance to broadcasts of strange pop ballads and mutant electronics. The hour-long, four part album revolves a libretto written by the Brussels-based artist in her native French, and performed in shapeshifting guises, all set to incredibly crystalline yet mercurial synth arrangements and truly devilish drum programming. It encompasses nods to everything from coldwave to chamber music, æther folk, chanson and synth-pop in thee most beguiling style, all woven together by a spellbinding vocal presence and needlepoint arps that patently place her music in a déjà entendu-familiar, but exceedingly rare, other dimension.
Across its four parts, field recordings elide with original synthesis and multiple vocal personas to spell out a flux of fleeting emotions with breathtaking subtlety and sensuality. Each part contains an album’s worth of ideas, persistently altering the scenery, lighting and style with inimitable deftness between passages of puckered songcraft, sound collage, and dance music abstraction that betrays a shockingly keen reading and transmutation of classic and contemporary vernacular into a singular, cinematic/operatic whole.
Just as the rave gods commanded exeunt the dance at the start of 2020, ’Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ arrived to us like a dream demo, quickly becoming a go-to album that totally absorbed and distracted from the needling ambient anxieties outside. By the time summer came around, though, the album weirdly recalled the trauma of first lockdown too palpably, and we genuinely couldn’t listen to it any more. However with autumn’s 2nd lockdown, and a renewed optimism, we had better come to terms with isolation, and the hypnotic, inquisitive nature and elusive beauty of Oï les Ox’s music, and her captivating story-telling now finds its place in the world as a life-affirming expression of modern eeriness that’s dead hard to shake once experienced.
Edition of 100 copies, includes an instant download dropped to your account. some copies (at random) come with an outer fabric sleeve for the tape to slide into.
Out of Stock
Boomkat Product Review:
Unreal début from French musician, artist, writer and dramaturge, Oï les Ox; basically one of the craftiest albums we’ve heard all of this damned 2020 - riddled with melodic ohrwurms - a massive RIYL Trevor Duncan’s La Jetée soundtrack to the most enigmatic oddities from Broadcast to Julia Holter, Teresa Winter to Nozomu Matsumoto and Rian Treanor’s disruptive rhythms.
Oï les Ox is the stage name of Aude Van Wyller, and ‘Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ (translation: A crooner that sinks under nails) is a sci-fi opera about an anonymous civilian consumer and a totalitarian governor who forces people to dance to broadcasts of strange pop ballads and mutant electronics. The hour-long, four part album revolves a libretto written by the Brussels-based artist in her native French, and performed in shapeshifting guises, all set to incredibly crystalline yet mercurial synth arrangements and truly devilish drum programming. It encompasses nods to everything from coldwave to chamber music, æther folk, chanson and synth-pop in thee most beguiling style, all woven together by a spellbinding vocal presence and needlepoint arps that patently place her music in a déjà entendu-familiar, but exceedingly rare, other dimension.
Across its four parts, field recordings elide with original synthesis and multiple vocal personas to spell out a flux of fleeting emotions with breathtaking subtlety and sensuality. Each part contains an album’s worth of ideas, persistently altering the scenery, lighting and style with inimitable deftness between passages of puckered songcraft, sound collage, and dance music abstraction that betrays a shockingly keen reading and transmutation of classic and contemporary vernacular into a singular, cinematic/operatic whole.
Just as the rave gods commanded exeunt the dance at the start of 2020, ’Crooner qui coole sous les clous’ arrived to us like a dream demo, quickly becoming a go-to album that totally absorbed and distracted from the needling ambient anxieties outside. By the time summer came around, though, the album weirdly recalled the trauma of first lockdown too palpably, and we genuinely couldn’t listen to it any more. However with autumn’s 2nd lockdown, and a renewed optimism, we had better come to terms with isolation, and the hypnotic, inquisitive nature and elusive beauty of Oï les Ox’s music, and her captivating story-telling now finds its place in the world as a life-affirming expression of modern eeriness that’s dead hard to shake once experienced.
More from The Death Of Rave:
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLNozomu Matsumoto Sustainable Hours - Soundtrack for installation by Nile Koetting The Death Of Rave Electronic- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLNYZ OLD TRX [87-93] The Death Of Rave Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Colour 2LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLRian Treanor A Rational Tangle The Death Of Rave Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- 12"
-
Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore The Death Of Rave Electronic
- Colour LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLCam Deas Mechanosphere The Death Of Rave Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- CD
People who bought this also bought:
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLLorenzo Senni Superimpositions Boomkat Editions Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLMeitei Kwaidan / 怪談 Evening Chants Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- LP
- Cassette
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLTHE CARETAKER Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6 History Always Favours The Winners Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Colour 2LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLJonnine Super Natural Good Morning Tapes Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLU Lowlands Where To Now? Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLDJ Python Mas Amable Incienso Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Colour LP
- LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLSarah Davachi Gathers Boomkat Editions | Documenting Sound Modern Classical / Ambient
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Cassette
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLShinichi Atobe Yes DDS Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- 2LP
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLJonnine Blue Hills Boomkat Editions | Documenting Sound Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Cassette
-
FREE MP3 WITH VINYLDean Hurley Concrete Feather Boomkat Editions | Documenting Sound Electronic
- MP3
- FLAC
- WAV
- Cassette