Oog Bogo Plastic

Oog Bogo are a four-piece rock band from Los Angeles and their new album is Plastic - an electrifying set of songs and sounds that just don't stop, working like a machine that makes joy and endless flips and repetitions, whether in front of the turntable or out in the real world.In the past several years, Oog Bogo dropped two records that previewed this explosion in wildly divergent ways: 2019's "Oogbogo" EP (GOD?017), its contorted fun house mirror images pulling punk, psych and new wave in and out of focus in a chaotic procession of mutant tunes. 2021's "EP2" radiates a starkly different vibe, as chilled-out guitar-pop tunes conjure a flowing medley of plaintive echoes and atmospheres in a mellow mist of hiss.Kevin Boog recorded these records in a largely hermetic state: at home on 4-track, playing all the parts, slowly drawing out the sounds. The songs for Plastic were demoed this way too, as a starting point for a group interpretation - but when, for obvious '20-'21 reasons, logistics prevented everyone from getting in the same room to even rehearse, the planned recording session at Ty Segall's Harmonizer Studios took on a different shape.The direction was right on with the guys at Harmonizer - Ty Segall's sense of imagination made him the ideal production counterpart to walk together with Kevin into this world, psyched to experiment and ready to get weird at any time. Ty and engineer Matt Littlejohn met all requests and requirements in the form of sounds, with gear and approaches that amazed and delighted, and an eternally ebullient spirit.As band members Mike Kreibel (Dirty & His Fists) and Shelby Jacobson (Shannon Lay) joined the session, there was a synchronicity and community with everyone involved, finding an unexpected road to realizing the songs, with all the colors and hues they added making everything pop that much harder.A bright metallurgy of guitar pop, psych, post-punk and apocalypse disco (!!!) embosses the sleek, multicolored flash of Plastic.