{"title":"Onyon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"last-days-on-earth-2","title":"Last Days on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerman post-punk band Onyon scrambled our brains when we heard them for the first time last year, so much so that we signed them and reissued their eponymous debut cassette EP (originally co-released in limited quantities by the Flennen \/ U-Bac labels) in June of ’22. \u003ci\u003eLast\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDays On Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is the band’s latest and first proper full-length for Trouble In Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe oddball, synth-soaked world of Onyon is disorienting at first - the band’s herky-jerky rhythms may operate in a familiar fashion to bands like Devo, Kleenex\/Liliput or label-mates Lithics, but Maria Untheim’s woozy synth squiggles that populate and punctuate the band’s songs keeps everything at arms-length. Flirting with the primitive cool of 80’s minimal-synth and the wire-haired cretinism of 60s garage, especially on tunes like the manic ‘Dogman’ or first single ‘Alien, Alien’. Guitarist Ilka Kellner’s six-string salvos rage unpretentiously with edges torn \u0026amp; frayed, rarely (if ever) soloing, but never afraid to unleash a spindly lead-line over Florian Schmidt’s rubbery bass lines and Mario Pongratz’s stuttering drum patterns that phase in and out of time imperceptibly like drunks doing their best to seem sober. Kellner and Untheim share vocal duties (in both English and German - sometimes in the same song), but the real magic comes when the two sing together, voices merging in loosely harmonic gang vocals; one deadpan, the other slightly unhinged. The group’s beguiling lyrics add to the mystique - inscrutable neu-world fables about egg machines, ghosts, worms that talk, and urges to consume newspaper that ooze a rural, old-world understanding of life \u0026amp; the imperceptible spaces in between reality and fiction, transmuted thru a modernist sci-fi lensflare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor fans of \u003c\/i\u003eWet Leg, Es, Devo, Lithics, Maraudeur, Nots, The Staches, The Fates, Y Pants, Raincoats, Kleenex\/Liliput, Chrisma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":50393541706059,"sku":"2049582","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50393541476683,"sku":"2049580","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393541345611,"sku":"2049579","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Onyon_-_Last_Days_on_Earth__8dbdce3c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726420625"},{"product_id":"onyon","title":"Onyon","description":"\u003cp\u003e Leipzig, Germany band Onyon appeared quite suddenly earlier in 2022, with their eponymous debut cassette EP, co-released by German labels U-Bac \u0026amp; Flennen in January. Trouble In Mind was so enamored with the tape, that they signed the band right away, and have reissued the cassette in a much larger edition and in a (nearly) identical tape version.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailing from the same scene as the fabulous Maraudeur, Onyon's synth-soaked racket on their debut pits synth vs. guitar as they arc \u0026amp; dive-bomb around the rhythm section’s stuttering pace. Some used to call that \"herky-jerky\", but this isn't that intricate or precise. Onyon's ragged magic lies in those imprecise recorded moments caused by excitement, fervor \u0026amp; feeling. The vocalists keep it cool, detached \u0026amp; monotone most times while singing about shrunken heads, nature, cats \u0026amp; someone forgetting to water their plants. While the whole affair has whiffs of Kleenex, X-Ray Spex, DEVO, Chrisma and the like, Onyon's debut also tips the hat to newer groups like the aforementioned Maraudeur, The Staches or The Cosmetics (but filtered thru a modern-day, urban-decay post-punk lens... that’s a thing, right?), Keen heads will also hear some Sixties garage-band vibes filtering through, like The Index, The Seeds, or maybe an alternate universe VU if they were led by Nico instead of Lou? (Can you imagine?). Released in either yellow or pink cassette shells (randomly inserted), Trouble In Mind is proud to bring a wider audience to this fantastic band, and eagerly await what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trouble In Mind","offers":[{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50452786610507,"sku":"1158279","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/75978c25-ea04-4469-911f-8b0898f50d2c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727163896"},{"product_id":"pale-horses","title":"Pale Horses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe post-punk-ish Leipzig garage rockers Onyon put out their last album, 2023’s \u003cem\u003eLast Days On Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, on Chicago’s revered Trouble In Mind label. Now that Trouble In Mind has ceased operations, they’ll release their forthcoming Pale Horses through the Swish Swash and Mangel labels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swish Swash","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":55827383812427,"sku":"R1193-3745","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ONYONFrontcover.png?v=1762202408"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/onyon.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}