“I’ve always been chagrined that no one understood that our songs were love songs,” says Oxbow’s vocalist and lyricist Eugene S Robinson. The cover star of The Wire 473 is reflecting on the band’s output from the last 35 years. While the title of the San Francisco quartet’s eighth album Love’s Holiday signposts the theme, Robinson’s delivery and the group’s committed fusion of free jazz, metal, contemporary classical and noise with the punk blueprint are as passionate as always.

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