New Album: OK GO
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky – [buy it here]
Everyone should know who OK GO is unless they have been living under a rock. OK GO made a huge break with there amazingly clever Treadmill Video and have kept it up with great music and creative videos to go with. You know a band has to be doing something right when they have 58,991,636 YouTube views and counting! Last week OK GO released a new album called “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” and it is just great! The record company sent me over a sneak peak before the CD came out and it was just amazing. The new cd has many layers.. they orchestrate the songs perfectly – if it were just a bit off it would just be noise, but it is beautiful blissful music instead! “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” seems to have more of a psychedelic influence and maybe a tad bit of the 80′s making some amazing strong melodies.
The cd takes you through a story of events: from I cant live without you, then to some please come back, to some self pity, to I am not so bad, acceptance. It is really amazing to listen to it all the way through. You feel like you have heard such a story. I love the 4th track “Needing/Getting” Damian sings “Needing is one thing, and getting – getting is another. It dont get much dumber then trying to forget a girl when you love her”. The lyrics are full of heart and soul, lyrics that real people wrote – that real people can relate to.
What others are saying
For this similarly ambitious third album, the now Los Angeles–based foursome apply their trademark exactitude to another pair of contrasting genres — Prince’s sexy synth-funk and the Flaming Lips’ elaborate dream-rock. Unlike Beck during his purple-paisley Midnite Vultures phase, Damian Kulash employs a soul-freak falsetto that’s sincerely accurate, and with the help of Lips producer David Fridmann, he and his power-pop pals master the Okie pranksters’ baroque whirls. [via spin]
‘WTF’ starts the album off splendidly with a dirty bass, falsetto vocal and sexually charged energy that Mr Rogers Nelson himself would be proud to call his own. ‘All Is Not Lost’ combines a fine melodic tune with a harmonious Beautiful South flavoured chorus. ‘Needing/Getting’ melds a Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitar break with a faintly Buzzcock doused lyrical sensibility and attitude complete with a midpoint melt down.(‘Needing’ also contains one hell of a fuzzy, threatening and gloriously creeping bass line). Elsewhere the aforementioned MGMT are evident as both influence and inspiration to the albums direction and content, as too, are OK Go’s east coast cousins, The Scissor Sisters. Further into ‘Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky’, OK Go almost tire of their ‘tribute’ album and decide to move on to pastures new. There’s a Beatles like quality to ‘Back From Kathmandu’ and a distinct french, Daft Punk/Air, flavour to the synth vocalised ‘Before The Earth Was Round’. [via contactmusic]
This CD is a definite must have of the year! Make sure to pick up a copy of it as fast as you can.. it wont disappoint! The boys are also on a European Tour at the moment! If they come near your town, make sure to make it out! I might have the oppurtunity to interview the boys of OK GO, so stay tunned! And if you have any questions you would like to ask.. let me know in the comments, and I will do my best to get them answered!
Remaining European Tour Dates:
- 01/19/2010 Nottingham Rescue Rooms Nottingham, UK
- 01/21/2010 AB Box Brussels Brussels, BE
- 01/22/2010 Melkweg Amsterdam, NL
- 01/25/2010 Werkstatt Cologne, DE
- 01/26/2010 Nouveau Casino Paris, FR
- 01/28/2010 Vega Musikkenshus Copenhagen, DK
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