The Holy Gasp - "The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex" LP
The Holy Gasp - "The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex" LP
The story of a troubled marriage further burdened by the death of the husband's father, and further burdened still by the death of his therapist.
"From the most painful and precarious of predicaments, The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex rises as a creative masterpiece."
-DOMINIONATED
"This is weird. This is weird music."
-FAT MIKE of NOFX
"Powerfully enigmatic."
-AESTHETIC MAGAZINE
"... even though so much of the album is primal (in lyrical content and instrumentation) -- raw, even crude -- there is a sense of refined craft, of every choice being a deliberate one. Smart and funny, brash and vulnerable... with an unsettling, terribly insightful humour. These songs build in their own psychoanalysis and yet they're never too clever or distant from their content."
-STEPHANIE BOLSTER, Governor General Award winning poet
"...an immediately captivating mix of genres, anchored by a powerful vocal performance... ultimately unlike anything you have probably... more