Tricky Woo Singer Survives Car Wreck to Release Krautrock Inspired Visual Album as Ex Ox
Stream Ex Ox Nervous Complaint (June 12)
https://exox.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-complaint
Visual Album on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fofXAvwxvHs
Ex Ox is the conduit. As Ex Ox, Canadian musician Andrew Dickson (Tricky Woo, Soft Canyon, Mongrels) presents his first solo effort, Nervous Complaint with an accompanying visual album. When a near-death experience forced him to contend with physical and existential questions, the answers for which there are no words, Dickson turned inward to his home studio in the woods of Quebec; inward to the workings of a brain inside of a galaxy. Informed by the taste of mud and blood, and the musical machining sounds he experienced inside an MRI, Dickson’s account of the car wreck that inspired his debut album (and art film) is both horrific and hilarious. Part “Planes Trains and Automobiles” and part “Evil Dead,” Dickson survived a freeway car wreck that saw him crawling from a sinking pick-up truck, holding a dislodged steering wheel, and ultimately making a police officer vomit at the sight of his injuries. Certainly a tale that should be told by an interview with this dynamic (and lucky to be alive!) Canadian artist. With determination and inspiration Dickson set out to capture some of the experiences he endured by encapsulating them in film and music that is reminiscent of the galactic soundscapes of early Krautrock artists and other synth-forward electronic pioneers.