Odeama Reviews

Reviews for Sounds in your Head:

'The Singles Bar' - Record Collector, March 1999

Various Artists - 'The Sounds In Your Head Vol.1'

"Which is a pretty good description of this record, as the sound quality
could have been achieved by ramming a jack-plug, into your temple &
recording the results. A product of the North Pole Sound Lab, Penothal (sic)
bring you some directionless plodding that is quite possibly an accidentally
recorded rehearsal, while the Magnetic North Pole open with some eerie
picking & plonking on long-suffering string instruments before descending
into grotesquely distorted feedback & electrical thrashing. Apparently Miquette
plays electric guitar on the chorus. What chorus?

Odema (sic) are more intriguing, with gothic bass and low-rent drum machine
thuds. Halon 1301 is wobbly fun with a slide guitar."



WOW! I was a review virgin - sod Persil, Record Collector 'changed my life'!



Taken from Alphabetty:

VARIOUS - Sounds In Your Head Vol. 1/N.Pole Sound Lab Recordings.

The first release on a new Dundee label, proving, once again, that the Scottish
music 'scene' does not end after you travel north of Glasgow.

Pentothal sound like they recorded their track on a £10 stereo hidden
somewhere shoved down the U-bend of their toilet. Just how lo can you go? The
song ends in a mess of out-of-tune bass and feedback. Quite.

Magnetic North Pole, them responsible for this label, have recorded theirs, as it
helpfully says on one of the inserts, on a 4-track. Loud bits come in when you
don't expect it and, frankly, it scared me.

Odeama have some very lovely guitar sounds and, following on the trend, it
sounds like their song was recorded in a shed under a hefty pile of cushions.
The drum machine ticks away in the background and the song reminds me of
Heaven Up Here era Bunnymen, so naturally it is my favourite track on this EP.

Halon 1301 provide out-of-tune slide guitar and sound like the band which is
always jamming outside my flat (not literally, but it damn well sounds like it). Not
so good.

A very odd EP indeed, it has to be said.