"The quiet kill off the country road, the time before the time when everything went wrong and the last 16 hours of that great love affair are the seminal beginnings of Oxbow. Designed to be the last aural will and testament of failed humanity, Oxbow actually garnered listeners from among the ranks of the fucked, with their 1990 release Fuckfest (cfy/pathological). Followed by King Of The Jews (cfy), The Balls In The Great Meat Grinder Collection (pathological), Let Me Be A Woman (brinkman/crippled dick hot wax) recorded by the estimable Steve Albini, Serenade In Red (SST/CDHW) also recorded by Albini and Gibbs Chapman (Faith No More, Red House Painters), An Evil Heat (neurot) by Gibbs Chapman, Love That's Last (Hydrahead) by Oxbow and the The Narcotic Story (Hydrahead) by Joe Chiccarelli (Agent Orange, Beck, American Music Club)"
Easily one of my favorite bands of all time. Love That's Last is a hypnotizing, disconcerting, coital, demented and threatening listen that leaves me wanting more. On headphones, you can practically feel lead singer Eugene Robinson eating out your ear canals before promptly battering you into the floorboards. As abusive as Oxbow can be, Love That's Last contains beautifully massive expanses of sonic delight, but is still deeply rooted to the dark bones beneath it all. Music for fighters and fuckers.
Love That's Last
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