Oblio
"Create The Night pt. 1" CDEP
Casino Records
Genre: alt rock, folk-rock, pop /
rock
August 2007 |
On the Create The Night pt. I EP,
Oblio play alt. rock steeped in influences as far-reaching as
country, folk, jam rock, and reggae. Sounding a lot like Jack
Johnson and that ilk, these folks are inoffensive almost to a
fault. Very upbeat, with "She-Devil" probably taking the crown for the
best song on here. This is very accessible, and certainly sufficiently
melodic, though I find it a little too coffeeshop for my taste.
oblio's myspace
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Fun Fact: Oblio is the
main character in The Point!, a fable written by Harry Nilsson
about a world where by law everything and everyone had to have a point
(a physical point, that is, though any symbolic double-meaning is free
to be pondered). Said Nilsson, "I was on acid and I looked at the
trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little
branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh!
Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to
it.'"
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 7 tracks, 28:39,
distributed by
the band,
released 2006] |