Metal Meets

VINYL FORMAT. Metal Meets is the band's third and most mature and creative offering yet. It is an album that cements their status as one of the most important bands at work in Canada. The band have a relationship to each other and their instruments that is inspired and zealous. Renowned for their devotion to the city in which they live, Ohbijou's lyrics and sounds have always paid homage to Toronto. Metal Meets, however, was crafted during retreats out of their city's confines. This album is inspired by ventures to cabins in the woods, travels across Asia, Europe and North America, and lyrical reflections on familial bloodlines that move across borders. Casey Mecija is a practitioner of love songs; her audience is privy to a moody, experimental lyricism and her words bespeak a passionate, rebellious desire. Each band member meticulously conditions lyrical narratives with haunting arrangements; unique to this album are songwriting contributions from Jennifer and Ryan.

Conceptually, Ohbijou draws on sites populated by rumbling volcanoes, deep lakes and haunted waterfalls, metals torn from damp earth, and dark desires usually uncommitted to words. Ohbijou has come of age, and their adulthood is more precocious and imaginative than their youth.