Brendan T Steere
I love this heavy swampstomp business - this is devil music and I'm here for it, y'all. Somehow even more cowboy, without the yee-haw.
Favorite track: Vitus Dance.
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We utilized many tape-recorded field recordings, loops, and sound effects to create the macabre and brooding soundscape of our 3rd “Plague Days” EP. Notably this tape was used on multiple parts of the tracks “You Stopped Coming Home”, “Crystal Face Of God”, and “Boils”. This tape has multiple recordings from each of those tracks on it, as well as unreleased bonus material & outtakes. It is a truly unique, one-of-a-kind item. We will never have, or make another tape with this audio, ever again. In buying this tape, you are also hugely supporting our budget and effort to promote new oblio music.
We hope you enjoy it. :)
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With all of that being said, we hope you will listen, share, or sample from this tape to your hearts’ content! Thank you so much for supporting our art!
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You stopped coming home a long time ago.
You get unnaturally tired.
You work all day long and feel like an animal and sweat.
You’re sitting at a desk, and yet you sweat.
You eat unhealthy. You could eat something healthy but you don’t.
You leave work and it’s not even a relief.
Your friend calls you to ask for help tomorrow… You apologize.
You drive home dizzy and rickety and nauseous. You could pull over… but you don’t. Someone might care, or worry about you.
What street were you supposed to turn on?
You can’t remember how you got to this street. Where are you?
You shout several curse words at the thing behind you and wonder why no one uses turn signals. You say “God Damn it all.”
You instinctively mutter “Thank God” when you pull in the driveway.
Fiddle with your keys at the door as that one neighbor you never talk to watches you out of the corner of their eye from across the way.
You have too many keys that all jingle and go to nothing.
You go to bed without food and don’t sleep well.
You think about hell.
You’re gonna leave again tomorrow.
You stopped coming home a long time ago.
At summer camp I walked to my cabin at night when everyone else was at the campfire, singing. It was dark in the cabin, but then I saw a floating white crystalline face looking at me, and it hurt to look at. I thought it was the face of God, and I asked, and it said “you know who I am.”
He’s been sulking around shrugging like we won’t notice…
I saw him changing earlier when he didn’t know I was watching.
He has the boils growing under his armpits.
He brought it in here with him.
We have to get rid of him.
Happy (nearly) Halloween, friends. I've spent years compiling Halloween-appropriate music covering the horrifying and macabre into a playlist of my own favorite songs for this season, so it only makes sense that we, as a band, finally take the next step and release some spooky tunes of our own. With that, here’s 7 dark tracks to fit the mood of the season. - Plague Days, Vol. 3
Special thanks to Jesse Mark Russell for the work he put into these songs (specifically: Black Heart & Yellow Moon) which he wrote, recorded and performed with us 10 years ago. (WOW time flies!) None of us knew if, or how these songs would ever get released, but it certainly wouldn’t be the same collection of music without Jesse’s fantastic contributions. Love you Jesse.
Also: special thanks to Jackson William Strahle, for being one of oblio’s biggest supporters over the longest period of time, and a true friend. He wrote Vitus Dance with us around 8 or 9 years ago, (for our previous project, "Dead Ball Era”) and its good to have some of his creative contribution being woven into this release.
Blake’s spooky indie-folk project he does with his wife Jesica. Features all the members of oblio on most of the songs, so it’s kind of like an oblio side-project, too! Very moody and vibey. oblio
Free Parking! is a punk band we love dearly... so much so that we produced and recorded their album "Fanfiction" for 'em. It's a killer album, & their other records are equally killer. Check it! oblio
Blake & Alex (of oblio) started this LA folk-rock band a few years before oblio was formed. They were very young, but there's a few gems. It's a good next-step for oblio super-fans who want more. oblio