OHHMS’ Paul Waller has a close encounter
DANI WILGRESS
ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED, RATHER optimistically, for January this year, tonight’s ‘launch’ for OHHMS’ Close album, now comes with a host of amplified and pent-up emotions attached to it. Relief, excitement, disbelief – it all hangs in the air at the Black Heart tonight like a pheromonal scent even as recent Prosthetic signees DEATH GOALS take to the stage. Making a beeline for the turbulent heart of 00s noisecore, the duo’s dense, dissonant, continually stress-tested melee, with vocals that sound like they’re spasming to an overloaded electrical current, isn’t preaching on behalf of the LGBTQA+ community, so much as speaking in tongues –a channel for so many frustrated spirits they can barely contain them.