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  • Oscillate

    PLAYREC40

    Artist: Obstacles

    Label: Play/Rec

    Having perfected the controlled, well-structured output on their last album "Dividual" – a relentless musical assault of tightness and timing - the band felt an urge to tackle the song-writing in a completely different way. Loosing up, Letting go. Trying to make the impossible, possible by making complex music flow in a more free form. After a swift and spontaneous writing-process, 4 tracks were ready to be captured. Obstacles teamed up with their friend Sune Kaarsberg to begin the recordings of Oscillate in their studio. This was a very dynamic process filled with experiments in sound and form. The result is breathtaking. Like being caught in a beautiful storm where chaos and energy reigns.
    While still somewhat futuristic in its aesthetics, Oscillate can also be considered a nod back to a hazy forgotten past, paying homage to legends of prog-rock and jazz-fusion whilst still maintaining the punchiness and vigor of their previous releases.

  • Oscillate (lossless)

    PLAYREC40L

    Artist: Obstacles

    Label: Play/Rec

    Having perfected the controlled, well-structured output on their last album "Dividual" – a relentless musical assault of tightness and timing - the band felt an urge to tackle the song-writing in a completely different way. Loosing up, Letting go. Trying to make the impossible, possible by making complex music flow in a more free form. After a swift and spontaneous writing-process, 4 tracks were ready to be captured. Obstacles teamed up with their friend Sune Kaarsberg to begin the recordings of Oscillate in their studio. This was a very dynamic process filled with experiments in sound and form. The result is breathtaking. Like being caught in a beautiful storm where chaos and energy reigns.
    While still somewhat futuristic in its aesthetics, Oscillate can also be considered a nod back to a hazy forgotten past, paying homage to legends of prog-rock and jazz-fusion whilst still maintaining the punchiness and vigor of their previous releases.

  • Dividual

    PLAYREC36

    Artist: Obstacles

    Label: Play/Rec

    Obstacles is Bass, Keys, Drums and Guitar. No auto-tuned vocals here, but plenty of strange song structures, complex timings and mad, mad, mad beats. Grinding basslines, fly ass guitar licks. The-know-it-alls of today’s cynical and desillusioned music scenes would call it math-rock. We call it intense, precise, zealous, meticulous and thorough. It can be furious, violent and obsessed as it can be playful and curious, even tender; Obstacles is sound that knows no fear.