I Gave You My Word
Now I Wish You Were Dead
I Pledged My Faith
Until The Colours Fade
Canadian outfit Odonis Odonis return with their sixth album, a self-titled release that signals both rebirth and reckoning. Finding its home on the new label Royal Mountain, the record channels pressure and possibility into something immediate and tangible. From the opening notes of the lead single, “Hijacked,” the duo sounds like men staring down the chaos of the present with sharpened focus and bruised determination.
Clattering guitars collide with fervent layered vocals, a bassline that penetrates the marrow, and a drumbeat that pounds like a nervous pulse. The song circles despair, painting a world fractured by greed and division, yet reaching toward connection. There are vows broken, faith eroded, and desire strained, but beneath the turmoil lies a raw insistence on love, on unity, on survival against the encroaching dark.
“Hijacked,” says vocalist and guitarist Constantin Tzenos, “is about the tension of a world on the brink. It reflects on a pivotal moment for humanity, a warning against surrendering to destructive, regressive forces. It channels the feeling of being stalked by a looming darkness that’s always just behind us, but the message is clear: the future is still unwritten, but only if we refuse to be hijacked by fear and chaos.”
That sentiment is more than just an artistic conceit; it’s a lived experience. Odonis Odonis are not careerists sequestered in rehearsal rooms; they are working musicians trying to survive the pressure cooker of modern life. Tzenos juggles the precarious world of film and television post-production, fending off AI’s encroachment while navigating fatherhood. Dean Tzenos and Denholm Whale have been piecing together their art against a backdrop of inflation, gig-economy precarity, and the constant churn of survival. Whale himself is immersed in the all-hustle/no-security realm of independent concert promotion. The weight of those realities saturates the music, lending urgency to every beat and phrase.
The accompanying video for Hijacked, directed by Ryan Faist, underscores that immediacy. A darkened club, dancers in slow motion, the swirl of fog, and the sense that time itself has collapsed into a single surreal frame. It’s as though the camera has wandered into a fevered memory, part rave, part requiem.
Odonis Odonis may be confronting a collapsing modern world, but they do so with a spark of insistence. Their music embodies both the ache of division and the desire for connection. In their hands, the future feels precarious, but also charged with possibility.
Watch the video for “Hijacked” below:
The best way to grasp Odonis Odonis’ body of work is to picture a sprawling nightclub. Each room holds a different obsession: psychedelic post-punk in one corner, electronic body music in another, but together they create an unbroken current of invention. This self-titled album doesn’t abandon those rooms so much as lock them together in a more seamless experience. Where 2023’s ICON EP felt like a showcase of guests: A Place to Bury Strangers, Tobacco, SUUNS, this new release strips away external decoration. What’s left is the core of the band: restless, direct, and unflinchingly present.
Odonis Odonis’ new self-titled album is out on November 15th.
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