{"id":22594,"date":"2022-02-23T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:28:24","slug":"album-review-urge-overkill-oui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/album-review-urge-overkill-oui\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Urge Overkill &#8212; Oui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22595\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/urge_overkill_oui.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/urge_overkill_oui.jpg 425w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/urge_overkill_oui-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/urge_overkill_oui-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>When we \u2013 okay, <i>when I<\/i> \u2013 last checked in on Urge Overkill, they were riding high on the breakaway success of <i>Saturation<\/i>. That was 1993, nearly three decades ago. Yes, they did release <i>Exit the Dragon<\/i> in \u201995, but I don\u2019t recall any of its tunes surfacing on \u201calternative\u201d (commercial) radio at the time, and a succession of tepid reviews meant I didn\u2019t investigate further. And 2011\u2019s <i>Rock &amp; Roll Submarine<\/i>, well, I only discovered that about thirty seconds ago.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are in 2022, greeted by <i>Oui<\/i>. And it\u2019s like Urge Overkill never left. The same seething, snaky (and slightly scuzzy) vibe that characterized <em>Saturation<\/em> is largely intact. Hurray for that! A cover of George Michael\u2019s \u201cFreedom!\u201d opens the disc, and it\u2019s pretty great, though the arrangement sounds as if they threw it together with a few minutes left on the studio clock.<\/p>\n<p>Much better is \u201cA Necessary Evil,\u201d an original tune that serves up all of UO\u2019s assets in the space of a few minutes. \u201cFollow My Shadow\u201d sounds very much like the Urge of old as well, with tightly coiled roaring guitars, and a rifftastic pop sensibility applied to energetic and appealing arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Sweet the Light\u201d all but leaps out of the speakers, ; like most of the tunes on <i>Oui<\/i>, the song seems in a serious hurry to get started. No fade-ins or mucking about for King Roeser and Nash Kato; their approach to songcraft has that in common with Raspberries (of all things).<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that the early 1990s were a great time for melodic, hard-driving alternarock, then <i>Oui<\/i> gives you the opportunity to pick up new music that will take you back there. The rock era may \u2013 as pundits tell us \u2013 be behind us, but Urge Overkill clearly didn\u2019t get that memo. Let\u2019s not tell \u2018em. And let\u2019s hope they\u2019re back for good this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we \u2013 okay, when I \u2013 last checked in on Urge Overkill, they were riding high on the breakaway success of Saturation. That was 1993, nearly three decades ago. 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