Vicious Fishes "Oslo" Album Release

$9 ADV/$15 DOS//18+//8pm Doors/9pm Show

Vicious Fishes celebrate the release of Oslo, their fourth full length album, on Saturday, September 21 at Deep Dive in Ithaca, with support from friends Pleasure Dome and Good Head. 

Oslo, which features singles "Cigarette," and “Fix Me Up,” is a burning 13 track missive, stamped with the tempo of Vicious Fishes’ indelible verve and sealed with the fog of their signature eeriness. It’s an album of songs that measure the weight of smoke, songs that qualify and quantify the unnameable aftermath of an emotion. Oslo - maybe it’s the Norwegian Shag, maybe Lou Reed had already taken Berlin. There’s an homage to mystery in the name, and a nod towards the thought that place and music will sink together. That the name of a city is a wholly appropriate container for an album. That city and the album, two ideas which, with time, come to belong to, come to document the experiences and attachments of those who walk their streets, those who replay their tracks. 

Founded in 2018, Vicious Fishes are a four-piece outfit, whose "swamp rock" sound easily treads the murky waters between contemporary alternative rock and post-punk blues. Tracing a well-tread lineage of influence from the Clash to the Pixies, onward from the Violent Femmes to the Strokes, Vicious Fishes steady the sway of any room with their deference to the past. Romanticisms pair with wisdom though, and caustic critiques of conformity offer release from modern isolation to listeners across genres. At moments, their music clashes with a dense anxiety echoed in the audience's mosh pit. Haunted waltzes tremble with unresolved tension. Yet, in the angst, there’s the static buzz of an ever ringing phone call, an excitement and energy waiting to be captured. 

Pleasure Dome: 4 punks from the Twilight Zone. 

Good Head: A staple of the Ithaca scene, 5-piece rock band Good Head adds an energetic pop twist to a familiar 70’s groove. While their latest original songs feature uptempo, driving rock with bright, celebratory choruses, their shows contain extended improvisational jams reminiscent of classic psychedelic rock.

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