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Muscles for President

by OHMNO

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Boring Guy 03:22
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Homogeny 03:19
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Land of Oz 01:21
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In Heaven 03:34
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Garbage Fan 03:05
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about

We started this record in the summer of 2020. Locked up at home under COVID restrictions there was nothing to do but watch chaos unfold in the outside world and recede further into ourselves than previously thought possible.

With eyes forced wide open we witnessed a ghouls gone wild presidential campaign alongside a numbing steady stream of racially motivated police killings. Alex P Keaton had joined the Manson Family. His shaved head and third eye swastika tattoo gave rise to a dark shadow beast of the American Dream. The visceral hatred and annihilistic anger feeding a monster whose only goal was self-consumption followed by self-immolation.

The contrast from the cartoon patriotism of our youth, Springsteen and the flag, Hulk Hogan the hero of the children and the horrific downfall of our formerly beloved TV father Bill Cosby provide no other narrative other than we were now living in the American Nightmare. Muscles for President is a reflection of being stuck inside this upside down version of reality; a Born in the USA on acid. It features recurring themes of existence in slow decay, apathy at the apocalypse, derealisation, and the violent shooting death of Detroit indie legend David “Muscles” Stroughter at the hands of the LAPD in 2017.

Self produced and tracked from our bedrooms and occasionally in person at Jakub’s Cherry Beach studio this is the most collaborative OHMNO album to date. Instruments and vocal duties are regularly swapped with samples and synthesizers generously applied to the bands minimalist indie fuzz rock pallet. Mellotrons, reverb tanks, and vocoders are treated as the 5th member of the band. Seeing how far we could stretch our minimalist ethos of 3 chords good, 2 chords better, 1 chord best inherited from spiritual mapmakers Spacemen 3, Syd Barrett, and the Velvet Underground, the songs range from dirgy and depressing to toe tapping sing-a-longs.

credits

released April 1, 2022

Ryan Mounsey – vocals, synthesizers, guitar
Savino Mazzuocco – vocals, bass, synthesizer, sampling
Jakub Bros – vocals, drums, bass
Tim Okura – guitar

Recorded and mixed by Granny Gremlin

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