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- Summary: The latest full-length release from San Francisco experimental/noise rock band Oxbow features guest appearances by Lingua Ignota and Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
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- Record Label: Ipecac
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 24, 2023To paraphrase Public Image Ltd, this is not a love album, in a form that most would recognise. It is, however, a powerful rumination on its presence, absence, and the power, both good and bad that love holds over us. Oxbow understands the power of love.
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UncutJul 24, 2023Love's Holiday still kicks against the pricks, particularly on raging single "Icy White & Crystalline", but the primary themes here seem to be love and loss. [Sep 2023, p.34]
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Jul 24, 2023This record nourishes Oxbow's most morose tendencies more generously than ever, and the fruit they bear is oh-so-flatteringly proportioned.
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Jul 24, 2023Love’s Holiday finds Oxbow operating in a slightly different, more restrained register, but that means the album doesn’t quite reach the heights of its towering predecessor.
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Classic Rock MagazineJul 24, 2023Grim catnip for 40-something lapsed Nirvana fans. [Aug 2023, p.79]
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