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Legs

by Olgaa

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1.
Sore Rose 04:24
2.
Star 04:51
3.
4.
4 Squared 05:20
5.
Meadow 03:51
6.
King 05:08
in water Find the king/cave in you on raised Find the space inside give a long Find the whole deep down a reason On the other side cut it down tear it up On the other side they say On the other side hole ride on gives in wide arms say give it up give me a raise Can you heal yourself in the springs Can you heal yourself voice is muffles in water, ok ok walk by it watch you stay walk by the water and watch me just say On the other side On the other side its say a raise me up On the other side On the other side

about

There is a brutal terseness, a beautiful and violent minimalism at play throughout Legs, the debut cassette from Olgaa -- a duo of Rachel Blomgren (Tiny Fantasy) and Sophie Weil (Syko Friend, Tips For Twat).

While the masters of war elsewhere continue to develop technological warfare techniques and chemical weapons, Olgaa devotes little more than 25 minutes to keeping the shiv sharp and the blunt object blunt. Like a very raw take on The Slits or an inversion of Throbbing Gristle’s “Persuasion,” (that is, content notwithstanding) track after track stretches out like a sinuous limb in a cloud of incense. Blomgren and Weil present a kind of incantational witch-punk, hazily played but trenchant compositions for electric guitar, bass, and two voices. What is not needed has been stripped away and the space which those things might have occupied is left empty or half-full of tape hiss, a cloud to make the glinting shiv all the more dramatic.

Olga’s incanting into that empty space is not about mourning the emptiness, but ownership of it. Blomgren and Weil are mavens of the void, their contralto voices trading lines like crosshatched hexes: “I’ve come to release you / Snake headed and true / You’ll help to release me / Erotic daydream.” The yang is excised and the yin rises, damning its reputation for passivity. Flippant aficion characterizes these six songs, one after another a plodding nod to no-wave tones and attitude.

Legs is hypnotic, dangerous, and sexy -- the kind of thing one eternally hopes to stumble upon at a Midwest basement show or in a dark bar on the Lower East Side.

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released May 1, 2017

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Olgaa Los Angeles, California

Rachel Blomgren - Bass and Vocals

Sophie Weil - Guitar and Vocals

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