Hailing from Hammond, Indiana and having introduced herself (to me at least) as a member of mega cool band Liquids, Abi Ooze released a very fine debut EP at the back end of last year titles R.I.P. It wasn't her first release under her own name (although strictly speaking as her real name is Jade Baisa I suppose I should write stage name?), there'd already been a few cassettes but I missed them. Anyway, R.I.P. was on Bandcamp as a name your price download (https://abiooze.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-p) and it was also available as a 7" single (sadly on Bandcamp it said it was "Abi Ooze’s first and last 7” release" which suggested this could be a short lived project.
And then came a song on the Introductory Rites comp from No Label which I described as "short, catchy and every bit as good as anything on R.I.P." (https://nolabel3.bandcamp.com/track/abi-ooze-run-and-hide). But was it a new track, signifying Abi Ooze was very much still a going concern or was it just something hanging around that had found a home?
Happily, the upcoming release of the Forestdale Sessions ep suggests it's the former. With songs written in 2022 ("5 quick Joan Jett/Ramones style pogo punker hits + 1 ballad + 1 stellar Shangri Las cover"), hopefully this is just the early stages of what's shaping up to be a stellar body of work. You can pre order the cassette or digital download from Rotten Apple : https://rottenapplelabel.bandcamp.com/album/abi-ooze-forestdale-sessions
There's one track streaming already and it's every bit as good as we could have hoped for. There's been some awesome power pop tunes released in 2022, here's another one to add to that list. Lyrically sad, musically totally uplifting, this is wonderful. It's called Cry Alone...
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