Odonis Odonis share video for “Work It Out” off their new self-titled album arriving this Friday, November 14 via Royal Mountain.
The band says,””Work It Out” is a post-punk track about confronting the grind of modern life as AI, inflation, and collapsing markets threaten our ability to survive. Inspired by the loss of my 18 year career in animation, the song pairs dark urgency with humor. For the first time, I used AI creatively to make an AI slop video that reclaims the very force that cost me my livelihood, turning disruption into art. “The next creative revolution won’t be aesthetic, it will be ethical” (Val @vongoval)”

On their forthcoming album, Odonis Odonis founders Constantin Tzenos and Denholm Whale have opted to switch off the strobe lights and power down their sequencers. “We just hit a wall with the industrial thing,” Tzenos admits. “We were like, ‘Okay, there’s, like, a million bands—especially duos—that cropped up in the time that we started doing it. We went as far as we could with it, and I was just like, “I don’t want to do this anymore.”

The duo’s 2023’s ICON EP, featured an array of collaborators (including A Place to Bury Strangers, Tobacco, and SUUNS). As Tzenos tells it, the period that followed the release of ICON effectively amounted to a full-scale system reboot. “After every album cycle, we’d always be like, ‘Oh, we gotta get something new out, man.’ But I just thought, ‘We’ve been a band for so long—let’s take a break. Let’s just hang out and have some drinks and just make some music.” But while Tzenos and Whale knew what they didn’t want to do musically, it took some time to find a new direction. “We just started writing without any kind of preconceived notion of what we were trying to make,” Tzenos admits. “A lot of the songs just came from jamming.”

Odonis Odonis
Odonis Odonis
Tracklist
Royal Mountain Records

1. The Same
2. Hijacked
3. Come Alive
4. Work It Out
5. Consumed
6. Hunter
7. Distraction
8. We Are Gods
9. Bliss

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