OK Go's new album is the first album release of 2010 I've really been looking forward to. That YouTube classic (The threadmill one!) led to some of a breakthrough for these guys - a well-deserved one, I'd say. This time they went in studio with Dave Fridmann - the man that helped Flaming Lips make Embryonic such an acid, fucked-up adventure of an album. And that can be heard - in a good way. OK Go have done their own thing - after somewhat of a breakthrough it would be normal to release an album of easy listening dull poprock songs (as Kings Of Leon did), but OK Go choose to make an album produced by Mr. Fridmann and let the first single be in 5/4. Brilliant. Now, about the album:
As I mentioned, Fridmanns inspiration and touch can be heard easily on Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky - you folks who have heard Embyonic will definately recognize some things here. But OTBCOTS is more accessible than Embryonic. But this thing doesn't have to be all about comparisons with Embryonic. So, goodbye, Embryonic-comparisons.
OTBCOTS is basically a pop album but it's more weird and twisted than anything they've done before. But oh, you'll find stunners and twisted beauty here (just like Embyon.... No, wait.) - the first single, WTF? mixes some rythm thing that sound like an experimental version of The Dead Weather with sweet falsetto vocals and album highlight I Want You So Hard I Can't Breathe is sexy as hell, well-written and mixes disgusting erotic pop with melodic pop and adds a little twist of something weird. White Knuckles, All Is Not Lost and Back From Kathmandu are almost in the same league as the before mentioned, and In The Glass finishes off the album in a most satisfying way. Lead singer Damian Kulash goes all in on Skyscrapers which I don't really get, and album low point End Love annoys me a lot, though.
All in all, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is a really good pop album with a light touch of acid and weirdness some places - I think that calling it a light version of Flaming Lips (Embry... Hey!) or Of Montreal isn't totally wrong. They're not as far out as the two and that results in the fact that this is quicker and easier to love, but you won't get those absolutely amazing pop orgasms that FL and OM deliver sometimes. But if the words "pop", "weird", "acid", "catchy" and "fun" turns you on, you've got to check this out - you won't be disappointed, and I'm neither.
All in all, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is a really good pop album with a light touch of acid and weirdness some places - I think that calling it a light version of Flaming Lips (Embry... Hey!) or Of Montreal isn't totally wrong. They're not as far out as the two and that results in the fact that this is quicker and easier to love, but you won't get those absolutely amazing pop orgasms that FL and OM deliver sometimes. But if the words "pop", "weird", "acid", "catchy" and "fun" turns you on, you've got to check this out - you won't be disappointed, and I'm neither.
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