Obits are a band without a plan. Even though their debut full-length, I Blame You, will be released via Sub Pop Records on the same date that they’ll headlining in Newport, this Brooklyn quartet has yet to outline any of their long-term ambitions for the group. This sense of irresolution is to be expected from something led by Rick Froberg, the frenetic guitarist/vocalist that previously served in Garage Punk firestarters Rocket from the Crypt and the rabid Post Punk Hot Snakes, two bands now defunct yet still deeply revered.
By Froberg’s own admission, Obits’ initial jam sessions were less actual practices and more “fucking around.” As the group coalesced in 2005 as the Snakes broke up, “it took us a while to figure out what we wanted to do and who the group of us even was,” Froberg says.
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