Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Indie.
Our Overview.
Terry Ohms is back with a new album almost a year to the date after his wonderfully eclectic ‘Terryfirma’. This time around, with ‘Cold Cold Shoulder’, Terry gives us eight stretched out, guitar-dominated tracks. Terry Ohms is the alter ego of Birmingham, Alabama native Wes McDonald – or maybe it’s the other way around. After spending time in their individual musical worlds and influences, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish where one ends and the other begins, or where the rhythmic reach of one extends and the melodic ambitions of the other continues.
Led by Mr. Ohms shape shifting vocals, the songs on ‘Cold Cold Shoulder’ get pushed around by soulful and sizzling guitar that is at once tight and loose. There are keyboards and bass lines hung over drum grooves. A Corvette-station wagon of sounds smoothly swing and berate on ‘Cold Cold Shoulder’. As for the songs, Ohms offers a variety of occupants that inhabit the same spirited borough.
‘Cold Cold Shoulder’ is Terry Ohms’ eighth release. Terry Ohms is the alter ego of Wes McDonald, who was the singer/guitarists for Vulture Whale and The Ohms, and is currently the drummer for dream-psych-rock outfit, People Years. With the second full length album in as many years, McDonald looks to be plowing full steam ahead with this Terry Ohms guy. He’s been making records under one moniker or another since the year 2000. With a history of giving musical norms and predictable progressions the ole’ cold cold shoulder, he still manages to deliver a damn good song time and again. McDonald has a sharp tongue and a keen and playful musical sensibility that informs his music with power and personality. And as Terry Ohms, who is stretched out, settled in and here to stay for awhile, ‘Cold Cold Shoulder’, more than any of his previous records, satisfies and strikes as singular and meant to be.
McDonald engineered, produced and played all the instruments on ‘Cold Cold Shoulder’ at Terry’s House in Birmingham, AL. He also designed all the artwork and made all the sandwiches.
Tracklisting: King Of The Mountain / Rock Of Gibraltar / What Do You Mean, What Do I Mean? / IMO JSYK BTW / All In The Past / Where You Comin From / Making The Most / That Song