{"product_id":"onyon-last-days-on-earth-cd","title":"Onyon - Last Days on Earth [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: TIM182CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 0650076674676\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 13 Oct 2023\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRIYL: Wet Leg, Es, Devo, LITHICS, Maraudeur, NOTS, The Staches, The Fates, Y Pants, Raincoats, Kleenex\/Liliput, Chrisma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerman post-punk band Onyon scrambled our brains when we heard them for the first time last year, so much so that we signed them \u0026amp; reissued their eponymous debut cassette EP (originally co-released in limited quantities by the Flennen\/U-Bac labels) in June of ’22. “Last Days On Earth” is the band’s latest \u0026amp; first proper full-length for Trouble In Mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oddball, synth-soaked world of Onyon is disorienting at first - the band’s herky-jerky rhythms may operate in a familiar fashion to bands like Devo, Kleenex\/Liliput or label-mates LITHICS, but Maria Untheim’s woozy synth squiggles that populate \u0026amp; punctuate the band’s songs keeps everything at arms-length. Flirting with the primitive cool of 80’s minimal-synth and the wire-haired cretinism of 60s garage, especially on tunes like the manic ‘Dogman’ or first single ‘Alien, Alien’. Guitarist Ilka Kellner’s six-string salvos rage unpretentiously with edges torn \u0026amp; frayed, rarely (if ever) soloing, but never afraid to unleash a spindly lead-line over Florian Schmidt’s rubbery bass lines \u0026amp; Mario Pongratz’s stuttering drum patterns that phase in \u0026amp; out of time imperceptibly like drunks doing their best to seem sober. Kellner \u0026amp; Untheim share vocal duties (in both English \u0026amp; 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 group’s 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 \u0026amp; the imperceptible spaces in between reality \u0026amp; fiction, transmuted thru a modernist sci-fi lensflare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded, mixed \u0026amp; mastered in late 2022 by Martin Müller, “Last Days On Earth” is released on CD, black vinyl \u0026amp; limited purple vinyl (while supplies last) as well as streaming via most digital platforms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1. Alien, Alien\u003cbr\u003e2. Talking Worms\u003cbr\u003e3. Egg Machine\u003cbr\u003e4. Goldie\u003cbr\u003e5. Two Faces\u003cbr\u003e6. Dogman\u003cbr\u003e7. Blue Lagoon\u003cbr\u003e8. Yahtzee\u003cbr\u003e9. Invisible Spook\u003cbr\u003e10. I Would Like To Eat The Newspaper\u003cbr\u003e11. O.U.T.\u003cbr\u003e12. Mower\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trouble In Mind Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42604272255132,"sku":"TIM182CD","price":16.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/unnamed_1_106cd17e-998f-40c7-8dab-f2887a74241b.jpg?v=1691423875","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/onyon-last-days-on-earth-cd","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}