But For Who?, by Odor Eater

But For Who?

by Odor Eater

supported by

42adam To describe Odor Eater, one has to jump back to around 1978, when a genre emerged that playfully embraced the new medium of sequencers, synthesizers, etc. This genre, with its spacey and fun melodies and quirky lyrics, explored its environment and cosmos. This led to the formation of bands like Devo, B-52's, Landscape, New Music, Der Plan, Human League (1978-1979), Lena Lovich,or Missing Persons, to name just a few. It's good that the fun continues. Favorite track: But For Who?.

Prozac This record is basically fantastic. My only complaint is it’s too short!

Brent Davis As a Gen-X'er, Odor Eater is total sonic dé jà vu... The 1980s - the unkillable decade!

Great stuff, kids - give it a whirl. Favorite track: Subterranean.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.

name your price
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited edition of 100 copies on opaque lavender mix vinyl packaged in a matte jacket with insert.

Includes unlimited streaming of But For Who? via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.

ships out within 5 days

Purchasable with gift card

$21.99 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
First pressing of 400 copies on black vinyl packaged in a matte jacket with insert.

Includes unlimited streaming of But For Who? via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.

ships out within 5 days

Purchasable with gift card

$19.99 USD or more
Cassette + Digital Album
Pro duplicated cassette with 3 panel J-card. Edition of 100 copies.

Includes unlimited streaming of But For Who? via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.

ships out within 5 days

Purchasable with gift card

$11.99 USD or more

1.	Boa Constrictor 02:45	buy track
2.	85 Decibels 01:48	buy track
3.	But For Who? 02:27	buy track
4.	Tunnels 01:13	buy track
5.	Nightcaller 03:21 video	buy track
6.	Frost Bite 02:23	buy track
7.	Hotwired 03:11	buy track
8.	Defunct 02:12	buy track
9.	Pinocchio 01:58	buy track
10.	Subterranean 03:15	buy track
11.	Ishmael 03:38	buy track

about

On Odor Eater’s third album, their first for Feel It Records, But For Who?, Harley Moore and Logan Devlin have appropriated various sonic idioms of the New Wave employing a similarly playful mode of critique lyrically and musically while updating the social context to reckon with the maelstrom of contemporary pop culture. The Olympia/Portland duo have created a record that speaks the language of their influences fluently but with a definitively contemporary accent—a bricolage of the sounds of Devo, Bill Nelson, Vince Clarke-era Depeche Mode, and Kraftwerk. Devlin and Moore bring fresh ears to this style of composition, mixing freely the aforementioned with a more fully developed sound of their own that is brighter this time around—less heavy and more danceable. Over the course of 11 songs, propulsive drum machines bip bap in deceptively simple patterns, with Devlin’s zig-zagging bass lines shuffling under arpeggiated chords and rhythmic synth leads while Moore’s vocals act as a sort of post-everything Virgil guiding us through the contemporary inferno. Lasers zip-zap in the background, machine-like sounds whoosh and whirr, percussive blips and beeps pop here and there, along with occasional clarinet parts provided by Moore. Meanwhile the lyrics, written and sung by Moore, deal with a wide range of personal and political issues, their vocal delivery often calling to mind the expressive dynamics of Stateless era Lene Lovich—at times veering towards the shouts and howls of Lydia Lunch. There’s songs that deal with genocide, the MAGA cult, and social one-upmanship—and there’s a couple of love songs too.

There is a line of logic that suggests that the proper response to social control is playfulness. Think Dadaism, the Situationists, or Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters: this is playfulness with a definite edge, like Marcel Marceau with brass knuckles & a blade. Similarly, New Wave with its kitschy futurism and programmed musical repetitions, exposed the ridiculousness of 1980s American consumer capitalism. If New Wave pop at its best was an implicit critique of the pre-programmed optimism and happiness of the Reagan era, a once faded memory that has come back to us now as a recurring nightmare—or an AI-induced psychosis delivered by phones rather than rabbit-eared TV sets, then Odor Eater picks up perfectly where those that came before them left off. The songs on But For Who? ask the most urgent personal and political questions in a fearlessly playful manner utilizing a sonic palette that has remained relevant musically and politically for forty-plus years. As a result, Odor Eater are able to create music that pulls one in as it skips along, unable to sit still whether through excitement or anxiety—the allure is at least in part because it’s impossible to tell the ratio of either element of such a potent mix. This is perhaps the perfect soundtrack for a world that is both shocking and hilarious at the same time.

-Ben Michaelis

credits

released July 24, 2026

Lyrics, vocals, clarinet by Harley Moore
Synthesizers, drum programming, backing vocals by Logan Devlin
Recorded and mixed by Logan Devlin
Mastered by Mikey Young
Art by Harley Moore

Thank you: Kurt, Gemma, Tera, Mike at Le Voyeur, Susan Subtract, Tia Rosa, Abba, Sarah Sequoia, Grayson Richter, Mikey Young, Martin Meyer, Sam from Feel It

license

subtotal
taxes calculated at checkout

about

Odor Eater Portland, Oregon

harley & logan
olympia & portland
✽✽✽✽✽✽✽✽

shows

Aug 21

The Sïx

Portland, OR
Aug 22

Le Voyeur

Olympia, WA

discography

But For Who?

Jul 2026
Fairytale

Oct 2023
Odor Eater

Sep 2020

contact / help

Contact Odor Eater

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Odor Eater, you may also like:

Hunger for a Way Out
by Sweeping Promises

supported by 42 fans who also own “But For Who?”

Packed with energy, and with an almost live sound, this is a great album. The rawness of the guitars and the vocals sit in between Indie and Punk, making for an album that engages and energises. mindshambles
go to album
Lucky Number
by Optic Sink

supported by 36 fans who also own “But For Who?”

Skeet skeet, motherfucker, gottdamn jmnoren
go to album
Musical Chairs
by Artificial Go

supported by 33 fans who also own “But For Who?”

RoyPakChoi's comment is much better than anything I could come up with... All that remains to be said is: Artificial Go's Musical Chairs has helped me deal with an extreme episode of the old existential horrors (brought on largely by a Brian Hodge short story I'm reading in fits & starts). ✌️💚🌻🇿🇦 Brent Davis
go to album
Always a Way
by Our Unseen Guest

Cutting, serrated darkwave and eerie goth-ambient are the order of the day on this utterly spooky and bewitching album from our unseen guest Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 13, 2020
go to album
Trace
by Incirrina

The Athens synth duo's latest plumbs new depths of majestic darkness and poetic beauty. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 4, 2026
go to album
Nation of Jubilation
by Tiny Music

A joyful array of minimal synth music full of color and whimsy. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2026
go to album
Good Living Is Coming For You
by Sweeping Promises

supported by 31 fans who also own “But For Who?”

This is what its all about. Good Living will Come For You even if you've given up on it mae flux
go to album

But For Who?

by Odor Eater

Digital Album Streaming + Download

Buy Digital Album name your price

Send as Gift

Opaque Lavender Mix Vinyl Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

Buy Vinyl $21.99 USD or more

Send as Gift

Black Vinyl Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

Buy Vinyl $19.99 USD or more

Send as Gift

Cassette Cassette + Digital Album

Buy Cassette $11.99 USD or more

Send as Gift

Share / Embed

about

credits

license

tags

Tags

Shopping cart

about

shows

discography

contact / help

Streaming + Download

name your price

Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

$21.99 USD or more

Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

$19.99 USD or more

Cassette + Digital Album

$11.99 USD or more