Or, two OPM records I bought this year.
Pasta Groove’s The Distinktive Sounds of Pasta Groove
I trekked to Greenhills just to get a copy of this CD after doing some web searching and watching. And if you think Kat of Sinosikat can’t get any sexier in-song, you’re wrong.
Pasta Groove’s influence-list also got me sampling other, unfamiliar stuff, but then I keep going back to DJ Shadow (early stuff), and Nujabes for similar music.
Outerhope’s A Day For The Absent
There’s an old video of the band on Youtube, and no live recording of note, so here are old of cute Mick I took last year from an acoustic set:
I found myself at Greenhills again just to get this, but I had to get it. I had Strangely Paired, the band’s first album, hence I must get this new one. This is a stronger effort, the song-stories more charming, and the vibe and sound is more consistent. In a day and age when we realize that, say, dance punk IS a fad, we actually have something out there that is original, though we can tell where the influences might come from. Is there anyone else out that does what the Outerhope siblings do?
I guess not, and that is almost always a good thing.
I have not followed a lot of other bands from the local scene, but there’s one band with an elusive record I’m willing to try out: Musical O. Yep, I think a good number of people who’ve seen the band don’t get it, but I do.
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I forward you to the now-yearly QLE Awards. The list is very commendable, since it does pay to actually belong to the scene to get a better grasp of things. Where else would the casual listener depend on for local content anyway? Radio? Music blogs (are there any, really?)
I agree on Quark’s SONG OF THE YEAR: “Matina Town Square” by Zach Lucero feat. Sarah Marco (listen here). Maybe the first listen was on a Brewrats show, or a mistake tuning to NU107 (HA!), but two things were instant: it was unmistakably OPM, and that OMFG is this a song I missed from the 90s?
IT IS THAT GOOD.
I’m not sure if the kids get this choice though, how it can deserve such praise. I remember Quark exclaiming how much he loves Blake Babies and The Spinanes, and if the kids nowadays jizz on The Fray and Jack Johnson and whatshisface from American Idol, there’s really not a lot to wonder.
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