OOIOO / Lightning Bolt - THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL LP (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, METALLIC GOLD VINYL)

OOIOO and Lightning Bolt are both bands whose music is wholly unique and whose creators’ influence
would be impossible to overstate. 2 Epic OOIOO SONGS and 5 Blistering Lightning Bolt Songs ! YoshimiO, OOIOO’s founder and bandleader, has been a guiding
force in uncompromising art across the continuum of rock and improvised music for four decades, from
her work in UFO or Die to The Boredoms to SAICOBAB and beyond. OOIOO serves as a core outlet
for melding freeform experimentalism with hypnotic rock pulses, defying boundaries with her acrobatic
voice, electronics, trumpet and gamelan. Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson have
remained unparalleled in their ability to transmute frenetic whirls of percussion, gargantuan fuzz and
dizzying melody into monolithic vistas. THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL is a split that
captures the parallels in ethos between these two ensembles, their sense of gleeful abandon and freight
train momentum, in inspiring detail.

THE HORIZON SPIRALS, composed of OOIOO’s gamelan-infused sagas “THE HORIZON” and “Gamel
BE SURE TO SPIRAL” demonstrates the boundless scope of OOIOO’s music. YoshimiO explains a core
contrast between these pieces and 2014’s Gamel lays in the physical materials used: “Back then in Bali,
bronze-keyed gamelan were mainstream, and GAMEL uses bronze. THE HORIZON SPIRALS' gamelan
is iron. Black-painted iron. This time, incorporating Koheysai's iron sound (iron gamelan) allowed us to
see OOIOO's songs spiraling upward with greater lightness.

Lightning Bolt’s THE HORIZON VIRAL evokes the limitlessness of their improvisations and distills
through more sophisticated home recording techniques. THE HORIZON VIRAL reignites the flame of
their storied home recordings, capturing the duo in full freeform, bolstered from bassist Brian Gibson’s
experiences composing and recording soundtracks for video games he co-designed, Thrasher and
Thumper.