"Oral Habit deal in what they call the ear-rattling psychic dream of choked-up acid punks, a sound that feels overpowering, explosive and intense: you could say it's more closely aligned to the disoriented racket of mid-60s freakbeat than the pie-eyed beatitudes of the Summer of Love; equally you could suggest it's a very contemporary form of psychedelia, rebooted for the troubled, disturbing climate of 2025."
"Initially a home recording project of frontman Charlie Hales now expanded into a trio with the addition of his brother Felix on drums, and his partner Tippi Lewis on bass, Oral Habit's recent EP Garage Frock! offers four short, sharp bursts that expand on the sound of its predecessor, Cardiovascular Spectacular, throwing up an impressively bloody and chaotic melange of guitar fuzz, echo-drenched vocals, feedback-drenched solos and primitive riffs that feels as if it was recorded with everything turned up to full volume."
Brighton hosts a dense psych scene with its own festival and Acid Box promotion, spawning many lysergic left-field rock bands. Oral Habit pursue an ear-rattling psychic dream of choked-up acid punk that leans toward mid-60s freakbeat's disoriented racket while feeling contemporary to the 2025 climate. The group began as frontman Charlie Hales's home recording project and became a trio with brother Felix on drums and partner Tippi Lewis on bass. The EP Garage Frock! contains four short, sharp bursts of bloody, chaotic guitar fuzz, echo-drenched vocals, feedback-drenched solos and primitive riffs recorded at maximum volume. The Coast shifts from ballad to crushing sludge, and the band embraces a maximalist approach: if a button's there, it's there to be pushed. A debut album is currently planned for release next year.
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