OOIOO / Lightning Bolt – Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral (gold vinyl)

OOIOO and Lightning Bolt are both bands whose music is wholly unique and whose creators’ influencewould be impossible to overstate. 2 Epic OOIOO SONGS and 5 Blistering Lightning Bolt Songs ! YoshimiO, OOIOO’s founder and bandleader, has been a guidingforce in uncompromising art across the continuum of rock and improvised music for four decades, fromher work in UFO or Die to The Boredoms to SAICOBAB and beyond. OOIOO serves as a core outletfor melding freeform experimentalism with hypnotic rock pulses, defying boundaries with her acrobaticvoice, electronics, trumpet and gamelan. Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson haveremained unparalleled in their ability to transmute frenetic whirls of percussion, gargantuan fuzz anddizzying melody into monolithic vistas. THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL is a split thatcaptures the parallels in ethos between these two ensembles, their sense of gleeful abandon and freighttrain momentum, in inspi