Angel Numbers, by Optic Nerve

Angel Numbers

by Optic Nerve

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Bianca Valentino One of THE hardcore punk albums of the year! An important Australian underground record to have in your collection. Favorite track: Trap Door.

mARk SpArK I could hear that one song all day long!

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1.	Bird Bath 03:44		buy track
2.	Gargoyle 02:57		buy track
3.	Tonic 03:01		buy track
4.	Ball & Claw 02:19		buy track
5.	Interlude 01:36		buy track
6.	Pendant 02:22		buy track
7.	Trap Door 06:05 video	lyrics	buy track
touch wood burning through (the) hole where my chipping goes sour you, follow me home feel your spit betraying what you see Trap Door, opens to a jump’d castle front yard (behind parked cars,) overlooking soccer fields lightning up my arms (touch wood) sneakers on rib cages slurs travel down hallways no history makes conditions of this en clo sure posed by your lack answer: crushed by the weight of this, pess I mism i try to get up and navigate this body scraped Trap Door opening up behind parked cars find the glimmers of joy and work that lights the way out this world. sun lit many horizons, out the gate with this folding bend it in new ways.
8.	Basket 01:43		buy track
9.	Bead Shop 02:34		buy track
10.	Leash 07:06		buy track

about

While still better known for its beach vistas and senate corruption, real heads know that the city of Sydney, Australia has consistently produced some of the most vital underground music of at least the last fifteen years. And amongst this fertile ground, Optic Nerve have emerged as one of its most compelling artists. Their debut album "Angel Numbers" is irrefutable proof.

So much sets this band apart that it's hard to know where to start. For one, there are Gigi De Lacy's cut-up lyrics. Delivered with a bark at turns harrowing and triumphant, they honour the nuance of complex frustrations while subverting punk's tired trend for abject and simplistic negativity. They are referential, but to a point where it becomes high-concept.

These days it takes a certain amount of self-assuredness to include both a conceptual explainer and a list of footnotes in your record's insert. But we can assure you that any pretension is earned by an intellectual rigour. And you'll have to take our word for it, because to summarise or paraphrase the lyrical approach and the concepts at work here any further, would only do them a disservice. Okay, a hint: it's locus is the heresy of a French Christian Mystic whose thought was centuries ahead of her time when she was burned at the stake. Suffice to say also, that this is the greatest punk record ever to pay homage to Madonna's "What It Feels Like For A Girl".

The ambition on display here scales the heights not of ego but of transcendent songwriting. The guitar playing is immaculate and unique, a genius melding of countrified twang and hardcore intensity. The rhythm section pound with bulletproof precision, but are smart enough to know when to cede ground to inspired flourishes of acoustic guitar, interjections of experimental noise and even a flute, which kicks off the album with such flair that love on first listen is unavoidable. And the importance of love is just one thing this record will teach those who pay it close attention....

If you are longing for a band to avoid the same old tropes of disaffection, you need it done with more bile AND more style, then you owe yourself an experience with Optic Nerve.

credits

released April 28, 2023

Produced by Optic Nerve at Studio 11 in the summer of 2021

Additional engineering by Yuli and Chris
Mixed by Chris Brownbill at Underground Audio
Mastered by Carl Saff
Cover illustration by Francesca Zak
Layout and design by Gigi
Insert poster, included also at the end of this booklet, by Chris Hearn

Optic Nerve is:
Jackie De Lacy — the Vocals, Flute
Joseph Buckmaster — the Bass
Jonathan Mendolicchio — the Guitars
Joel Nevile – the Drums, RE-201

All words by Gigi, all music by Optic Nerve
This album was made on Wangal & Gadigal land.
Always was always will be.

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