Cardiff alternative/experimental/grunge/psych band Obey Cobra have unleashed their new single “Blue Hour“, alongside a video.
The track features on their upcoming sophomore album ‘Mwg Drwg‘, set to arrive on May 3 via Rocket Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
Produced by London’s Wayne Adams, Mwg Drwg is where the weird and eerie are amplified to intimidating proportions. It’s where grotesquely and beauty happily cohabit.
“We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of re-combining nature’s products into hideous new forms.”
So reckoned Mark Fisher in ‘The Weird And The Eerie’, which chronicled the means by which the uncanny can enter the everyday. Mwg Drwg is an album that dwells in exactly this kind of headspace. It’s not only a bracing delivery of heavily-amplified and vituperative intensity, but a richly atmospheric journey to a liminal zone where the otherworldly meets the kitchen sink.
Obey Cobra is known for exploring new dimensions through their signature distorted post-punk, electronic, and industrial influences, but with Mwg Drwg theyr have fashioned surreal new shapes. Taking influences as diverse as Diane Arbus, David Lynch and Sonic Youth, they balance out heaviosity and grace on the glacial yet pulverising ‘Blue Hour’.
Watch /listen below.
Mwg Drwg Tracklist:
- Blank Tape
- Ten of Wands 03:57
- Gnostic Shock
- Blue Hour 03:37
- Kali Yuga
- AI GF
- Tolerance Break
- Home Wrecca
- Half Smile
- Mwg Drwg
- Blackweir
