Sugar Me Sweet

Psych-soaked surf-gaze from Toronto, Canada doesn’t come much better than Odonis Odonis. Multi-instrumentalist Dean Tzenos is behind the project – a revolutionary of sorts, who locked himself away for 60 days to record his debut album Hollandaze. His work is a sought-after commodity; with three labels teaming up to release Hollandaze, all in different formats. Buzz Records has the tapes, Daps Records has the CDs and Pleasence Records has the vinyl. 60 songs were recorded during the Hollandaze sessions, all busted out in Tzenos’ own self-built recording space, but only 11 have made the cut. 49 remain locked away, hopefully for a mad boxed-up collection sometime in the future. Inspired by The Jesus and Mary Chain, Thee Oh Sees and A Place To Bury Strangers, Odonis Odonis’ sound is a fusion of not only his influences but also his instrumental capabilities. Tzenos plays surf-guitar like Link Wray but knows exactly when to hit the distortion pedal, and the addition of industrial sounding percussion gives his music a grimy appearance akin to Throbbing Gristle. Similarities can also be drawn to psych rockers Wooden Shjips and New York garage-punk soloist Nice Face.

Hollandaze is set for release on November 7 and pre-orders are being taken over on Odonis Odonis’ bandcamp page. Pre-ordering the album will get you an immediate download of the album so you won’t have to wait for the physical product to arrive in the post. Also set for release, this time via FatCat Records, is Odonis Odinis’ second album Soft Boiled Hard Boiled, recorded with the help of Black Mountain’s Colin Stewart and Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers.


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