Edinburgh’s Oedipus And The Mama’s Boys blend raw post-punk energy with experimental noise rock textures. Armed with guitar, bass, saxophone, violin, drums, and synth, the 7-pieces sound is chaotic and cathartic, drawing influence from genre heavyweights such as IDLES, Gilla Band, Squid, The Murder Capital and Gurriers. Their debut single ‘Bleed’ announced their presence in the Scottish music industry, and they now follow this with ‘Stretched/Kitchens’ a song of two parts co-written by Gemima and Charlie in mid September, with two completely separate sets of lyrics that have no correlation whatsoever, yet they are pinned together. The band share the following on the track:
“‘Stretched’ is a letter of gratitude for the love received in a time where I was unaware of how much I needed it, and subsequently how it was taken for granted unknowingly. It is a painful reflection of where I was, and where I ended up. The lyrics were raw and vulnerable to write but it is a song that needed to be written with blood on the page and love in my heart.
‘Kitchens’ is a nightmare, a day dream, a reimagining of the false comfort we find in glorifying our idols – our own desires. We can forget that our muses are projections of our own wants, and where we want for more from what we ourselves make, it exhausts us. The lyrics are a recital of the memories that haunt those who give and lose their all to their muses, stuck in an endless cycle of needing and doing.“
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