May
31
2007

OTO Rating: 7/10
Going into Turn Up The Ghosts having no clue who Dat’r are is a lot like getting punched in the face. Regardless of the circumstance, fault, chance, or reasoning a sting wells up that stuns you as much as it puts your brain on the static channel for a few moments. Luckily [...]
May
22
2007

OTO Rating: 6/10
Midnight Movies drift in a jangly sea of electronics that is as much about motoring along with driving rhythm as it is about pulling the oars through ambient swoons. Gena Olivier’s writing and singing charts the depths while the rest of the band mans the wheel and points the stern. Throughout the [...]
May
14
2007

A specific air surrounds every Moonbabies release. It is something engrained in the nothing, something etched in the oxygen. The wait for the first drum to hit is like being on a different bus route for the first time. Life whizzes by but you’ve taken temporary root and can’t lift a concrete foot until [...]
May
10
2007

OTO Rating: 8/10
What is it with the Norman/Oklahoma City music scene? Is there some sort of mystical force in the mostly college-kid inhabited city that produces amazing musicians? Having been born and raised in Tulsa, I always thought I was so much more lucky and fortunate to have been brought up in the “cool” [...]