OLTH
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While OLTH were a new name to me, they certainly don’t sound new in any way. This week’s New Music Monday is their latest song “sOng fOr jOrdan” of their debut album “every day is sOmeOne's speciaL day” and this series of singles they've been releasing seem to indicate a modern classic is coming our way.
“sOng fOr jOrdan” starts out with a fuzzed out spoken word piece, complemented by emotive hardcore soaked instrumentals. Recounting a dream of a brief encounter the track quickly shifts into a wall of cycling and gnashing guitars as a looming thunderhead of a bassline rattles against hauntingly beautiful drums. Reminiscent of Swan of Tuonela, the wailed acuteness of the howling vocals finds itself coming through clearly in the blizzard of instrumental chaos.
OLTH are wild, they have a melodic triumphant nature, tempered with tasteful and gripping distortion constantly being pierced by a high-pitched shriek that bends and warps into a scream with as much control and ferocity as molten blade carving through steel. Their first ever album “every day is sOmeOne's speciaL day” is dropping June 6th, and the band has been on a tear recently playing shows, kissing babys and generally OLTHing about in anticipation of its release via Zegema Beach Records. The tapes won’t drop until June 1st but you can hit the link below for their latest single that they’ve been kind enough to share with us:
