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Fronted by tech geek/fight trainer/author/renaissance dude Eugene Robinson, the San Francisco-based Oxbow has garnered a well-deserved reputation for making compelling, complicated, boundary-smashing, experimental rock music and transcendent (and in moments frighteningly intense) live performances.
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Helmed by six-time Grammy winning producer Joe Ciccarelli, the band's sixth full-length release since 1989 (among a smattering of EPs and singles) is the first segment of a triptych that includes a yet-to-be-released feature film and soundtrack. The group is in amazing form on this set, with Robinson's throaty, burbling, half-swallowed lead vocals pushing a hypnotic, disorienting, code-switch-laden blend of punk caterwaul, grandmamma moaning, professorial lecture, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Oxbow: The Narcotic Story (Hydra Head Records).