Live Review: Enter the 'Time Flux' with OCDANTAR

OCDANTAR has been that name on everybody’s lips, partially because they have no idea how to pronounce it, and partly because he has had a finger in many pies baked by some of Melbourne’s best musical exports of the last few years. Now, finally, after 6 years in the making, he has dropped his debut solo EP Time In Flux.

His many musical projects have included working as Chet Faker’s bassist, fronting Rat & Co, and playing the bass for alternative rock ban Smile. It’s some serious genre-bending going on here, and that is exactly what makes Time In Flux amazing. No two tracks are the same, the tone and mood changes from each song to the next across the seven track EP.

Known during his other musical stints as Joshua Delaney, when he transforms into OCDANTAR he transforms into layers of sounds, from melancholic organ like chords on ‘Sad Child’, to the haunting and yet soothing vocals of LIAHONA featured on ‘Sky Sea Client View’.

OCDANTAR has explained that each of the seven tracks, written at various times across a span of 6 years, are “translations of the inner dialogue of my mind”, it’s an EP about the fact that time is forever changing. It’s true of the sounds as you are transformed into something that feels futuristic and almost like the end of time with ‘Data Transmission’, and the feelings of child-like wonderment with ‘El Capistan’ that makes you feel like you are sitting somewhere in the past.

Time In Flux is out now via Smooch Records. It’s something you need to experience. It may not exactly get you pumped up and perky, but it will certainly open your mind to a lot of feelings and thoughts somewhere in the depths of your own mind, very late at night as the world rages on around you.

Words by Madeline Kilby

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