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The Strange Uses of Ox Gall
Pop · 2011 · 12 tracks · 43m

The Strange Uses of Ox Gall

H. Hawkline

A salt-crusted collection of wonky art-pop and maritime psych-folk. Dry, surreal, and recorded with a tactile, analog murkiness that feels like a coastal fog.

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It's like a haunted maritime museum where all the exhibits are slightly out of tune.

A dry, coastal surrealism that feels both whimsical and vaguely threatening.

The Strange Uses of Ox Gall · vs · H. Hawkline
Fog+1.3σ

Fog saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 43m
01
Cofio
0:17
02
Ballast
2:05
03
Funny Bones
6:10
04
Mind How You Go
4:29
05
Big Red
1:03
06
Surf Pound
4:59
07
Giât
0:42
08
My Dreams
3:29
09
Sea of Sand
5:06
10
Two Ghosts at Sea
5:37
11
You Say You Love Me
4:50
12
It Takes a Lot of Gall to Make Ink
4:56
Moments Worth Waiting For
The hypnotic, six-minute unraveling of Funny Bones where the repetition starts to feel like a fever dream.
The jarring contrast of the one-minute Big Red acting as a sharp, distorted palette cleanser.
The way the final track resolves the album's tension with a title that explains the ink-making process through a surrealist lens.
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