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Last Days On Earth is German post-punk band Onyons latest and first proper full-length for Trouble In Mind. The oddball, synth-soaked world of Onyon is disorienting at first – the bands herky-jerky rhythms may operate in a familiar fashion to bands like Devo, Kleenex/Liliput or label-mates Lithics, but Maria Untheims woozy synth squiggles that populate and punctuate the bands songs keeps everything at arms-length. Flirting with the primitive cool of 80s minimal-synth and the wire-haired cretinism of 60s garage, especially on tunes like the manic Dogman or first single Alien, Alien. Guitarist Ilka Kellners six-string salvos rage unpretentiously with edges torn & frayed, rarely (if ever) soloing, but never afraid to unleash a spindly lead-line over Florian Schmidts rubbery bass lines and Mario Pongratzs stuttering drum patterns that phase in and out of time imperceptibly like drunks doing their best to seem sober. Kellner and Untheim share vocal duties (in both English and German – sometimes in the same song), but the real magic comes when the two sing together, voices merging in loosely harmonic gang vocals; one deadpan, the other slightly unhinged. The groups beguiling lyrics add to the mystique – inscrutable neu-world fables about egg machines, ghosts, worms that talk, and urges to consume newspaper that ooze a rural, old-world understanding of life & the imperceptible spaces in between reality and fiction, transmuted thru a modernist sci-fi lensflare. For fans of: :Wet Leg, Es, Devo, Lithics, Maraudeur, Nots, The Staches, The Fates, Y Pants, Raincoats, Kleenex/Liliput, Chrisma.
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