Ex Ox

NERVOUS COMPLAINT

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Ex Ox, Nervous Complaint

Ex Ox is the conduit. As Ex Ox, Canadian musician Andrew Dickson (Tricky Woo, Soft Canyon, Mongrels) presents his first solo effort, Nervous Complaint. When a near death experience forced him to contend with physical and existential questions, the answers for which there are no words, Dickson turned inward to his home studio in the woods of Quebec, inward to the workings of a brain inside of a galaxy. The taste of mud and blood, and music machining inside an MRI.

Part of the reason Nervous Complaint feels like a crucial listen is that Ex Ox’s approach is so thoroughly his own, unique to the point that trying to attach it to one genre doesn't really work.

The album is an experimental musical journey where mellotron flutes twinkle their melodies above industrial noise. Synths, theremin, piano, guitars, percussion and orchestral arrangements find their way to meet with minimalist mediations. At times icy, serene, and at others explosive and outer-worldly. The synths are gleaming and stratospheric, but also destructive and twisted.

Conjuring a soundtrack for astral projection, Nervous Complaint is a sonic, psychedelic contemplation on consciousness, mortality, internal and external struggle, and how we seek our place in the universe. Divergent, transcendent: imprisoned in the flesh is a limitless imagination.

File under: Experimental Ambient, Drone, Experimental Electronic, Kosmische Musik, Soundtrack, , Psychedelic,