Onyon - Last Days On Earth (Vinyl)

German post-punk band Onyon scrambled our brains when we heard them, so much so that we signed them & reissued their debut cassette EP in June of ”22. “”Last Days On Earth”” is the band”s latest for Trouble In Mind. The oddball, synth-soaked world of Onyon is disorienting at first – the band”s herky-jerky rhythms may operate in a familiar fashion to bands like Devo, or LITHICS, but Maria Untheim”s woozy synth squiggles populate & punctuate the band”s songs, flirting with the primitive cool of 80”s minimal-synth and the wire-haired cretinism of 60s garage. Guitarist Ilka Kellner rages unpretentiously with edges torn & frayed, never afraid to unleash a spindly lead line over Florian Schmidt”s rubbery bass lines & Mario Pongratz”s stuttering drum patterns. Kellner & Untheim share vocal duties, but the real magic comes when the two sing together, voices merging in loosely harmonic gang vocals; one deadpan, the other slightly unhinged. The group”s beguiling lyrics add to the mystique – inscrutable neu-world fables about egg machines, ghosts, worms that talk and urges to consume newspaper that ooze a rural, old-world understanding of life & the imperceptible spaces in between reality & fiction, transmuted thru a modernist sci-fi lens flare.

• 1 Alien Alien
• 2 Talking Worms
• 3 Egg Machine
• 4 Goldie
• 5 Two Faces
• 6 Dogman
• 7 Blue Lagoon
• 8 Yahtzee
• 9 Invisible Spook
• 10 I Would Like to Eat the Newspaper
• 11 O.U.T
• 12 Mower