Lightning Bolt
Oblivion Hunter
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: Post Rock / Avant Rock
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Oblivion Hunter is a monster. Not a compilation, not concept album and more than the sum of its parts, the record is a peek into the band’s inner world on their home turf (the Hilarious Attic in Providence), collecting deep explorations into distortion, bass manipulation and its intersection with rhythm. A Limited release in 2012 sold out almost immediately. This first re-issue is a deluxe one coming with 4 different covers each matched with it’s own color vinyl. Re mastered by Josh Bonati, you can now immerse yourself in this pivotal Lightning Bolt album’s sonic oblivion and YOU are now the Oblivion Hunter.
A cathartic listening experience, Oblivon Hunter finds blast-beats colliding with distorted vocals and all shapes and sizes of guitar noises, even some metallic riffage on the album closer and aptly named “World Wobbly Wide.” Throughout, the sound is amped-up and free with an ear on the railroad tracks to the big sounds of industry and clamor. Bass sounds jump out of the speaker cones that conjure up ears in alien propulsion systems, nights in faraway wind tunnels. Experience this pivotal album in Lightning Bolt’s catalog like never before.
“After so many years, albums, and shows, Lightning Bolt have grown into one of the fiercest bands on the planet. But the looseness of Oblivion Hunter is a nice reminder that the core of their appeal isn’t so much that they’re pushing their sound into new places, but that they’re two guys who can’t hide how happy they are that they get to spend their lives making this kind of a racket.” - Pitchfork