EOM: Departure

Explosion of Mind, now just EOM, is a project led by American guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Ova Banchu. Over the last two or three years I have reviewed a couple of Explosion of Mind albums and I was interested to see how the artist has further developed his sound.

Beginning with “I Think I Know� this is a very strange and eclectic album. The heavy beat and underwater bass sounds makes for some unusual sounds. Just the guitar is featured on “Mortal Flesh�. A bit of Spanish flair with fast strumming and picking but also slower tempos as well. I am not a fan of the next track “Bad Boy� due to the rap-like shouted vocals. On “Melody M.� the music is pretty good, like the really fast riffs, but the guitar is mixed so high and the drums so far down it all sounds a little off.

My favourite track on the album is “Vista� with its swirling psychedelic guitar work.

Banchu also includes a couple of tracks featuring his friend Mike Dapore of the band Om Spectre. “Who Do You Talk To� and “Inner G� are both raw and quite heavy and feature some pretty good guitar work from Dapore although the sound quality isn’t great.

The last six tracks tell a story about the ‘Adventures of Buzz Beaver & Mike’. While I appreciate the artist is showing his sense of humour I can’t say I enjoyed listening to this string of six songs. Musically it’s okay, pretty heavy at times but the talking chipmunk style vocals just didn’t do it for me.

So this is a mixed bag. The album is pretty rough from a recording stand point and some of the songs just weren’t in my wheel house although I thought “Vista� to be an excellent track. Oh well, you can’t win them all.

*Album cover photo not available at this time*

Track Listing:
1. I Think I Know (2:09)
2. Mortal Flesh (a guitar solo) (3 :19)
3. Bad Boy (3 :07)
4. Melody M. (2:33)
5. Spirit of Love (demo) (2:08)
6. Vista (3:12)
7. Who do You Talk To (2:16)
8. Inner G (9:27)
9. Dam Beer (4:33)
10. Metal Blitz (4:03)
11. Commercial Buzz (3:24)
12. Mike & Martha (5:02)
13. Dam Beer (#2) (7:10)
14. Mike & Rocky (4:46)

Added: October 13th 2018
Reviewer: Jon Neudorf
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