Oldboy

by Andy Seven

Andy Seven Ltd's fourth poetry audiobook, Oldboy is a collection of prose tales of horror, sports decadence and Southern Californian melancholy. This collection includes a reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's dadaist poem Faces. All poems are accompanied by neofolk music and dark ambient sounds to create a unique poetry and music experience.

15 pages, Audiobook

First published April 26, 2026

About the author

Andy Seven has written for music magazines and is a veteran of the original Hollywood punk scene where he played with many legendary bands. Seven's writing employs roman noir/pulp fiction elements with a strong Fifties Beat influence to create a new genre of hard-boiled writing, punk noir. His novels Hot Wire My Heart and Every Bitch For Himself are prime examples of his crime fiction.

Mr. Seven lives in Hollywood and is the author of the bi-weekly blog Out Demons Out, which is now in its nineteenth year. His poetry can be read in the anthologies Will To Flutter and Horror Sleaze Trash Quarterly.
He can also be heard reading his poetry on the current Dawn of Darkness Experiment compilation at ReverbNation and The Internet Archive, as well as the forthcoming Noise As A Form of Expression, Vol. 4 compilation, to be available on Bandcamp.

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite movie about a poet is Orpheus by Jean Cocteau about a popular poet despised by the hipster cognoscenti because his work is too successful. His best friend is a poet so jaded with writing that his next book will be a volume of nothing but empty pages. Crazy, man…

Oldboy is my fourth audiobook of poetry, fifteen prose poems that up the ante from previous efforts. While past audiobooks featured poems with more traditional soundscapes, the new work features dark ambient, aggressive neofolk mixes and drum and bass rhythm tracks.

All music mixes aside, Oldboy is a wild mosaic of sonnets dedicated to horror films (Sadako, Succubus), Robert Williams-inspired sports sleaze (Demolition Derby, Bantamweight Vs. Flyweight), and a triptych of Southern California gothic (Bougainvillea, California Boyfriend, The LA River).

Some poems have been published in the past, i.e. Bantamweight Vs. Flyweight, Succubus, and California Boyfriend were featured in Horror Sleaze Trash. Other poems like Slumgullion, Transfigured Night, and Sadako were included in several Dawn of Darkness witch house compilations, available for listening at The Internet Archive.

Oldboy can be streamed on You Tube, Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or Deezer. Hard media CDs can be purchased at Bandcamp. Friends, Hollywood Babylonians, and countrymen, lend me your ears.

[Harry Whitewolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is my favourite of Andy Seven Ltd.’s spoken word albums. While it still has the rawness of his previous releases, it also feels a little more polished. The combination of Andy’s poetic spitting words and merger of weird beats, beautiful notes, carefully-selected samples, and experimentation works incredibly well. And I’m not sure I can sum up the accompanying music any better than Andy does himself: “A post-modern industrial glam melange of vintage Seventies synthesizer electronica, avant garde jazz and rural folk-blues.”

I guess the nearest comparison, in terms of feeling, might be the music of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti combined with the distinctive storytelling of William Burroughs’ spoken verse. But actually, that comparison is still wide of the mark. This is truly original stuff.

My favourites were Islington High Street, Carrot In The Donkey's Eye, and Succubus. Also, the rendition of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Faces is beautifully delivered. I didn’t know the poem before and am very pleased that I am now aware of it.

Call myself a writer? I don’t feel like I have the vocabulary to describe the gem that is Oldboy. But I think that’s because it’s something that needs to be experienced more than described. What I can tell you is that I loved this just as much as its namesake movie.

Though, I do wish the words of this album were published in text form, as I think it contains some of Andy’s best poetry – and I’d like to spend more time letting his words sink in and contemplating them in more detail.

Check out Oldboy on Bandcamp: https://andysevenltd.bandcamp.com/alb...