Oxbow – “Love’s Holiday” [Album Review]

Oh man, Oxbow makes me angry. Don’t get me wrong, the anger isn’t directed at them, but it’s still a present and palpable emotional response. Listening to their latest record (and first new music in six years), Love’s Holiday, puts me in mind of the early 1990s – and perhaps that’s where the anger springs from. Let’s rewind to those days of yore and see if we can trace this feeling… So, anger in this era may have sprung partially from my geography: South Africa, my native land, was not in the best of places, politically or socially speaking, having just emerged from the heavily oppressive 1980s. I joke with people that the ’80s in the country was just like the small-town setting of Stranger Things, except the Demogorgon we were battling was institutionalized racism, but the reality is that...

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