Spring Colors Challenge - Day 28: Butterscotch*
When Oliver Ghoul isn't improving lives as a physician up in Montreal, he's saving souls with his music... Ok, maybe that's taking it a little far, but his debut, ostentatiously dubbed, The Big Reveal EP, is pretty damned good! Almost suspiciously good. What kind of deal did Mr. Ghoul have to strike with an unscrupulous devil to come to possess such prowess on the guitar? Hopefully, it wasn't anything that would compromise his professional ethics! Although, if it did, he could probably woo the disciplinary committee with a string of fat-bottom riffs that could convince them to let him off easy. Oliver's got this impeccable funky sense of rhythm that gives the groove of each of his songs an exhilaratingly bumpy terrain, making you feel like you're on a rollercoaster with a loose wheel, giving you an extra, unexpected jolt while coasting around the bend or dropping down an incline. While roughly describable as psychedelic, the EP feels just as indebted to a spacy schema of future rock that overlays well with southern blues chords and goes down smoothly like a spiked ice tea on a hot afternoon. Oliver could have kept this savory jar of jams to himself, having another life and career and all, but I'm thankful that he decided to tip his hand and let his gooey, fantasies spill out all over the internet instead.
