David Barbarossa reached out to John Dwyer (OSEES) saying he was a fan, and he was quickly invited to an OSEES show in London. The two hung out and hit it off, “then I rabbit holed on Bow wow wow too…,” Dwyer recalls. “I reached out to David and suggested that we try and write some songs together… I flew David out, we met at my studio and spent five days writing basin drums ideas.” The two got to know each other and had a lot of laughs.

Dwyer then brought in Weasel Walter, knowing that he would be perfect “to add all that legitimate old-school weird proto-punk no wave guitar scratch to it, which of course he did masterfully.” Next came Tom Dolas to play fuzzy marimba, and the fabulous H.L. Nelly, “as I knew her from a record I’d put out back in the day for a band called Naked Lights from Oakland. I knew that she could pull off the vocal style I had in mind.”

CHIME OBLIVION is

DAVID BARBAROSSA – DRUMS (ADAM & THE ANTS, BOW WOW WOW, FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS)
JOHN DWYER – BASS, SYNTH, VOCALS (OSEES, DAMAGED BUG)
WEASEL WALTER – GUITAR (FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, LYDIA LUNCH’S RETROVIRUS)
TOM DOLAS (OSEES, MR ELEVATOR)
H.L. NELLY – VOCALS (NAKED LIGHTS, FKA SMILEY)
BRAD CAULKINS (BENT ARCANA, WITCH EGG)

CHIME OBLIVION
TRACK LISTING
Deathgod

INCIDENTAL SYNTH 5
NEIGHBORHOOD DOG
KISS HER OR BE HER
THE FIEND
INCIDENTAL SYNTH 4
HEATED HORSES
THE UNINVITED GUEST
AND AGAIN
THE MYTHOMANIAC
SMOKE RING
INCIDENTAL SYNTH 7
I’M NOT A MIRROR
GRASS
COLD PULSE
THE CATALOGUE

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