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Okay Paddy:
Hunk EP
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to records again, another pop nugget of goodness drops out of ether into your stereo. You all remember Okay Paddyright? You know, that horribly named band from Scranton, PA. Well, they stopped hanging around the drive-thru liquor store all day hoping for the fifteen-year-old kid on duty to take a break so they could steal beer and decided to hit the studio instead. The results are surprisingly good. A tasty concoction made up of sprinkles of something tasting of Malkmus after his noise period, but before his prog period. Throw in a little late-date Weezer bounciness, and there is just no way to keep the girls from taking off their shirts while singing along to these songs. Forget about any obligatory weirdness, though. In reality, this disc probably owes more to 60s bubblegum casualties than to our 90s fracture-pop heroes like Pavement. That having been said, the tunes are really good. Not mind blowingly-word-of-god-descended-from-heaven good, but pretty good. This record reveals a deepness of musical sensibility after repeated listens that is not apparent at first but is hidden under the obviousness of the first hooks. This EP should be a challenge to Okay Paddy: 1) Change
your name! Try Pokadaddy or Yo Poaddy; anything but Okay Paddy.
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