Artists: Opioids
Title: Temporary Phase
Genre: Post Punk / New Wave
Release Date: 6th June 2014
Label: Danse Macabre
Flash Review
It is nothing else but an incontrovertible fact that the Tel Aviv´s foursome chosen band name and the 10 songs, presented on their debut ‘Temporary Phase’ are a brilliantly perfect match. You only have to take the known side-effects of opioids like sedation, euphoria & hyperalgesia and you have a quite perfect summary of the music’s emotional range. Home at the threshold between (Post)-Punk and New Wave their music is clean-cut and frayed, toxic and refreshing, stirring and seducing, blessed with a shrugging indifference relating to musical perfectionism and inflated meticulousness. It is no stylistic new ground but it´s credible and imperfectly honest. The poles all is whirling around are the really great bass lines (hijacking the attention impertinently often) and Sharon Reuveni´s vocals, yelling and murmuring, jumping around and soaring up, writhing in pain and delight through the intersection of BJÖRK and SIOUXSIE, providing the music with some wispy menace, some seducing unsubduedness.
Conclusion: So ‘Temporary Phase’ seems to smell like nights without sleep, feels like smeared make-up in a stained mirror, a catharsis in full rooms and empty glasses. It rebels against harmony and melodies, acts so rough and riotous and is so fragile and enchanting at the same time. Feels a bit like a buzz…
Rating: 7 / 10
