Chime Oblivion began out of the blue. David Barbarossa reached out to John Dwyer saying he was a fan of Osees and he was invited to a show in London. The two hung out and hit it off, 'then I rabbit holed on Bow Wow Wow too,' Dwyer recalls. 'I reached out to David and suggested that we try and write some songs together. I flew David out, we met at my studio and spent five days writing basic drums ideas.' The two got to know each other and had a lot of laughs. Dwyer then brought in Weasel Walter, knowing that he would be perfect 'to add all that legitimate old-school weird proto-punk no wave guitar scratch to it, which of course he did masterfully.' Next came Tom Dolas to play fuzzy marimba, and the fabulous H.L. Nelly, 'as I knew her from a record I'd put out back in the day for a band called Naked Lights from Oakland. I knew that she could pull off the vocal style I had in mind.' Together, the group created their debut self-titled album. for Deathgod. For fans of Adam & the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Crass, The Slits.