Acronym Rock
Okay, I'm usually of the opinion that having an acronym as a band name is a generally bad idea, but I'll make some exceptions here. Although, I do think we should all at least remember the whole Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD ("the east coast family") fiasco of '91. Let's just say that it wasn't a coincidence the two acronym laden members of the family faded into obscurity while roman numeral sporting dorks became annoyingly famous. Just saying.
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OHM - Spoon Me
I don't usually quote from press releases, but I think that it's appropriate in this case: "Unknown to the outside world, OHM has kept their music in secret dark places. They have never sent a demo to a record company, only played live once and carefully packed their recordings and put them were no one can find them. Mostly in dark, closed train tunnels deep under Stockholm." Now, I don't know what kind of abandoned train tunnels and secret dark places they have in Sweden, but they must not be anything like what we have in Canada. Although it is kind of refreshing to picture subterranean dwellers and goth kids bouncing about to infectious pop-music in the in deepest, darkest corners of the Swedish landscape. Who knows, maybe the Scandinavian variant of social democracy has been even more successful than I'd imagined.
[buy/listen]
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OMR - Captive in the Height of Summer
Sounding like Blonde Redhead in a way that's does more than just make me want to revisit my old Blonde Redhead collection, this French band makes some very good atmospheric indie rock, with the perfect combination of electronics and heavily accented English. I'm especially enamoured with lyrics like the one that starts off this slow dirge of a song: "all is becoming sparkling impossible to catch". It's one of those series of words that I have a feeling a native English speaker probably wouldn't say but that, perhaps for that very reason, manages to evoke an unexpected set of images.
[buy/listen]
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OHM - Spoon Me
I don't usually quote from press releases, but I think that it's appropriate in this case: "Unknown to the outside world, OHM has kept their music in secret dark places. They have never sent a demo to a record company, only played live once and carefully packed their recordings and put them were no one can find them. Mostly in dark, closed train tunnels deep under Stockholm." Now, I don't know what kind of abandoned train tunnels and secret dark places they have in Sweden, but they must not be anything like what we have in Canada. Although it is kind of refreshing to picture subterranean dwellers and goth kids bouncing about to infectious pop-music in the in deepest, darkest corners of the Swedish landscape. Who knows, maybe the Scandinavian variant of social democracy has been even more successful than I'd imagined.
[buy/listen]
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OMR - Captive in the Height of Summer
Sounding like Blonde Redhead in a way that's does more than just make me want to revisit my old Blonde Redhead collection, this French band makes some very good atmospheric indie rock, with the perfect combination of electronics and heavily accented English. I'm especially enamoured with lyrics like the one that starts off this slow dirge of a song: "all is becoming sparkling impossible to catch". It's one of those series of words that I have a feeling a native English speaker probably wouldn't say but that, perhaps for that very reason, manages to evoke an unexpected set of images.
[buy/listen]
posted by ian at 8:20 PM
1 Comments:
I wrote about OMR's 'Stood the Test of Time' last week, and I had trouble describing that sort of mix-and-match syntax in the lyrics, but you nailed it with this, Ian: It's one of those series of words that I have a feeling a native English speaker probably wouldn't say but that, perhaps for that very reason, manages to evoke an unexpected set of images.
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