Last year, John Dwyer was busy unleashing the latest OSEES album Abomination Revealed At Last, as well as launching the new band Chime Oblivion with Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa. But now he’s announcing ZUZAX, his first Damaged Bug album since 2020’s Bug On Yonkers.
“40 or so Damaged Bug tunes from the past seven years were orphaned / unfinished, which is pretty rare for me,” the prolific rocker explains, continuing:
I just kept having other things going on & life kept getting in the way. And frankly, the songs were all over the place so I didn’t see a thread in there, but in light of current events in the world, I feel like it’s every artist’s calling to construct personal messages cloaked in moments of escapism. That’s what this record is for me was something to clear the decks a little bit in my studio and relax my mind and keep the wolf from the door. It’s a bit of a joyous/sad record dealing with hope and forgiveness two things which I hope end up more in my life. It’s abstract and poppy, fried and sugary.
It’s exactly how I feel at the moment fried and skewed.
Good luck out there and I hope this turns off the torrent for you, for a moment.
Check out the lead single “End Of The War” below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “End Of The War”
02 “Double Yolks”
03 “Mossy Rooves & More”
04 “Hoak”
05 “Sike Witch”
06 “Junk Food”
07 “Rare Lights”
08 “Over-exposed”
09 “Fried Hands”
10 “Man Without A Planet”
11 “Tented Lights”
ZUZAX is out 3/20 via Deathgod.
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