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[UPR063] Ono Scream (cold wave) CD

by ONO SCREAM

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Leather Girl 03:07
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No More 03:08
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Gone Too Far 04:04
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No Escape 03:56
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Ono Scream, the solo project of Apparaat - frontman Bart Willems (Anvers/Belgium), has one foot proudly in the past but with the other one he takes a step forward. He eagerly uses the sounds of the gloomy eighties. You'll hear references to his childhood heroes (Fad Gadget, early Simple Minds, Bauhaus ...) which are glued to modern influences like The Soft Moon, the KVB, Lowlife and Tropic Of Cancer. But with a sharp, Ono Scream - like twist to them. Ono Scream is Willems' very personal way of dealing with the past, while looking to the future. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. He’s tried his hand at a myriad of musical styles, to wind up back at his true passion: synth-driven rock music, both old and new. With mesmerizing keys, pounding bass-loops, wintry voice and a sporadic feminine touch, he immerses the listener in a melancholy but also riveting world.
All songs resound with both the grandeur in a minor key and the anxious hope for the future of, say, The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Siglo XX and Killing Joke. Elsewhere we hear the fuzz of The Jesus & Mary Chain or the drones of Gary Numan. The familiarity of these retro sounds grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shows you exciting new places. This is true COLD WAVE somewhere in the darkest hole of human emotion between The Cure, Joy Division and early New Order.

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Reviews of album:

snoozecontrol.be/reviews/7004/
www.metalsucks.net/2017/05/25/the-dark-corner-ono-screams-self-titled-debut/
www.side-line.com/ono-scream-ono-scream-cd-album-unknown-pleasures-records/
www.obskuremag.net/chroniques/ono-scream-st/
www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=19770

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released March 20, 2017

Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, mixing and production by Bart WILLEMS (Belgium)
Mastering by James Aparicio (London / UK)
Artwork by Bart Willems

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UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS Avignon, France

We are a label / mail order shop based in the South of France, specializing in forms of dark music influenced by the sound of the late 70s and early 80s. We produce high quality bands of Post-Punk / Minimal wave / Synthpop / EBM / Dark Techno / Industrial / Cold Wave / Noise Experimental / Dark Folk / Indie Rock
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