Originally a solo project for prolific songwriter\/ bandleader Dean Tzenos, Odonis Odonis has only recently become a live band project, playing their first live shows in May and picking up heat as one of the buzz bands of Toronto\u2019s NXNE festival.<\/p>\n
Compiled from a wealth of material written and home-recorded between January 2009 and September 2010, Dean recorded virtually all of\u00a0forthcoming debut album Hollandaze<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a grimy, gum-splattered m\u00e9nage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi \u2013 alone in a tiny home studio, writing two or three songs a day.<\/p>\n Tzenos\u2019 passion to produce was born of juxtaposition, binding the orderly with the anarchic, the sacred with the destructive, the playful with the terrifying.\u00a0 Wrapping every song with deep sea reverb and cold fingertips, Odonis Odonis distills the vitals of pop and experimentation.<\/p>\n Molded at a young age by the sounds of indie, new wave and industrial mix-tapes passed on by Dean\u2019s elder sisters, Odonis Odonis harkens to The Jesus & Mary Chain, Pixies, Big Black and The Cure. \u00a0Like a good post-modernist, however, these influences merely colour, but do not define Odonis Odonis.<\/p>\n Signing to FatCat Records\u00a0last month, Odonis Odonis\u2019 first release came in May with an ultra-limited edition 7″ single \u2013 \u2018Busted Lip\u2019 on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies, followed swiftly in July by four tracks on a split 12″ (shared with Deerhunter side project, Lotus Plaza) on FatCat’s new sister label, Palmist.<\/p>\n