Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man

What would happen if folk suddenly became cool, underground and quirky and dark with the freedomed structure of progressive rock?
Imagine that...Or perhaps you don't have to.
See what I did there? Made you believe a falsehood before actually revealing it's truthness. Silly.

Anyway, I'll go on.
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man are a band, which combine feelings of Victorian london; dank, dirty and biblical, but, with added raw guitar, strong, cutting drums and story telling singing. Fronted by cult bohemian dandy Frederick Blood-Royale, who almost preaches his lines to his audience. Every word is perfectly pronounced and dictioned to a certain extent that you are not sure whether to consider him talentless or innovative, as with most brilliant genius'. The band may as well be called 'The Human Condition' as it's very much a philosophical ride of human self-strife and frantic crushing sounds. They manage to put in a bit of everything a band needs into their musical collection. They can have strong songs and they can have spacey, trippy ones. They can have steady, contemporary songs and they can have experimental freak-feast songs.

The band have written two EP's which they have called Opus'. 'Opus I: The Lay Of The Land; The Turn Of The Tide' and 'Opus II: Obscured By a Setting Sun'. There are so many elements to this band, from their actual musical production, their artworks, their naming, subject matter, system of release, etc. They bare intakes of prog rock, folk, grunge, rock, post punk; however, saying that, is it shallow of me to try and label them like that? They're clearly within their own sound, such as Placebo or Panic! At The Disco, before they went indie, when punctuation mattered. It's fair to say that a good band makes good use of punctuation. But, I'm digressing. Ox are certainly something new, and undeniably innovative, even if it's not for you, yet. Some people will look down on Ox as nothing more as a pretentious romp of a middle class musical experimentation, even if they're merely basing that on Blood-Royale, even if they're just basing that on his eyebrow raising alias and general appearance, which, really, I'm glad about, because it makes him even more the interesting, unique and brilliant. But, they are so much more than that and to think that is just narrow-minded and, quite frankly, boring. Personally, I think they're fantastically original and a brilliant addition to a library. They're the kind of band that deserve to be listened to on vinyl than any other medium as they just have that ancient value that feels real and truly vintage and old fashioned, whilst, still being fresh at the same time.

They are everything. They are power. Space. Friendship. Enemies. Intelligence. Culture. Morality. Evil. Good. Ox. Eagle. Lion. Man.


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