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"Step 1: Acknowledge You Are Part Of The System" Ophelia Rising |
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Never, I'll never accept being part of the system. And neither will they. Not with a sound and style that's about as far out there as anything you've heard say in the last 200 years. The all-girl make up of Ophelia
Rising has often been compared to The Go-Go's meets Marilyn Manson…
maybe a demo-era Go-Go's if anyone remembers them prior to their "Lori," begins
this four track EP and is a slow-moving, soul-torturing piece that lurks
momentarily beneath the surface, thrashes about in a shriek of convoluted
verbal discourse, "Novocain" is just flat out boring where for the first moments you're hoping something will finally break out and give you reason to jump out of your seat-then reminding yourself of the title it's plainly obvious there's nowhere left to go from numb. "Rock Star" has a trashy vibe to it, returning to the familiar strains of the opener two tracks back, singer Lexa unleashing pure torment into the mic, the rest of the band trouncing their instruments as though they were school age playthings meant for immediate dismemberment soon as they're pulled from the packages-here's where they get the Manson spread by the way. "You Don't Own Me"
closes the cover by way of effectual stimuli made up of murky Ophelia's definitely a right angle turn from girl-group depth perception-anything but your everyday Babes In Toyland, Lunachicks sort of thing, content to writhe underground if rarely above it. Theirs is an intriguing style that
merges early age Garage Rock and Goth with animosity, anger, and mental
inflammation. Released by Capitol Records Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252
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