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Oginalii Post “Spacegoat” Video; Pendulum EP out Oct. 23

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Nashville-based heavy psych/post-rockers Oginalii released their debut album, Cause and Affection in April 2019, following the 2017 EP The Grey and a handful of digital singles that would soon enough appear on the record. On Oct. 23, the four-piece, melodic and contemplative on the full-length, will offer up the new Pendulum EP, which they tout as having a heavier sound. Fairly enough so, for it having been recorded earlier this year during the pandemic lockdown — the PR wire calls it “quarantine season,” and I like that — and if indeed the release pushes Oginalii toward darker and weightier fare, the video for “Scapegoat” finds them maintaining the atmospheric sensibility of Cause and Affection, which certainly had plenty of heft by the time it got to the thud and roll of its nine-minute title-track, while offsetting it with such claustrophobia.

I’ll readily admit to not being familiar with Oginalii before the “Scapegoat” video came through. If I had the chance to hear the album last year, I have no digital paper trail of that contact, but whatever. I’m glad to dig in now, and already in listening to it, I’m looking forward to what Pendulum might bring in terms of overall impact. For now, it’s a cool video and a right-on vibe in the song that’s equal parts troubled and hypnotic, and Oginalii — it’s so hard not to double the ‘l’ instead of the ‘i’ when typing that; the moniker is “my friend” in Cherokee — earning its dark color scheme and deeper, foreboding shadows. I look forward to hearing what a song called “Black Hole” by this band sounds like.

Info from the PR wire follows the clip beow, including an explanatory quote from guitarist/vocalist Emma Hoeflinger.

Please enjoy:

Oginalii, “Scapegoat” official video

The tumult of 2020 fueled the creation of Pendulum, the newest record from Nashville, Tennessee’s Oginalii. Created in part during the quarantine season, Pendulum stands in stark contrast to the band’s well-received debut Cause & Affection. While that album hinted at darker themes and tones, Pendulum swings all the way into the darker and bleaker side of life. Oginalii will release Pendulum on Oct 23 via the esteemed, newly resurrected Devil In The Woods label.

“I began writing the base of the song during a really odd time in my life where a lot of difficult changes and events were happening around me,” says front-woman and songwriter Emma Hoeflinger. “I felt like some of the people closest to me were beginning to fall out of my reach. One of the main themes of this record is the understanding of the way people change around you and thus, you change as well. The women in my family and the women around me were beginning to change, and it scared the hell out of me. I wanted to hold them all as close as I could, but I realized that I was suffocating them as well as myself by trying to control what wasn’t necessarily something bad. If I want to be someone worthy of these people around me I also have to rise, change, and grow with them. That’s where the chorus came from. I kept trying to come up with something clever, and something that had ‘meaning’. However, sometimes you just need to scream and yell out to the people around you and let go. You have to let go instead of getting swallowed up by your own control.”

Pendulum Track List
1 – Veils
2 – Scapegoat
3 – Pendulum
4 – Black Hole
5 – Pillars
6 – Stripped the Screw

Oginalii is:
Emma Hoeflinger (vocals/guitar)
Ryan Quarles (guitar)
Simon Knudtson (drums)
Emma Lambiase (bass)

Oginalii, Cause and Affection (2019)

Oginalii website

Oginalii on Bandcamp

Oginalii on Instagram

Oginalii on Thee Facebooks

Devil in the Woods website

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