Ocean Eyes is the latest (and most popular) Album of retro American Synth-pop Band Owl City. now nothing particularly drew me into this band. it certainly wasn't talk-of-the-town. but when I heard a snippit of a certain song on the car radio I must concede it was catchy.
Now firstly I Have no Idea what Synth-pop is. if asked to take a wild guess I'd go for a Genre that bases it's songs entirely around one catchy jingle. because look up catchy jingle in the dictionary and you will see Adam Young sucking a few more ring-tones off his Synth.
now I had just heard about thirty seconds of the song whilst in the car so i didn't have time to hang around for the name. so I did what I always do when I want to know more about a song but have no idea what it's called. I googled the lyrics and found that it was of course "Fireflies" the albums only real headliner. now most of you will have probably heard this song but not the rest of the album. in this case I advise you to get up and buy it because it is seriously good. If your too fat to move please buy it off I-Tunes. bordering on awesome apart from its few flaws,the music is well executed and beautifully presented with a heart-warming touch to many of the songs. it also has this felling of "Homemade Music." The music is so beautiful that you could have Sound tracked the Album for the movie "Avatar" (which I plan to review if all goes well) and it would be deemed fitting by many.
The Album does however seem to suffer from severe multiple personality disorder, Switching incoherently from BassHunter to Mika To High school musical for Christ's sake but seeing as they all round them off pretty well I wont complain too much
However there is one big problem with "Ocean Eyes."
Listen to "Fireflies" around 12 times perhaps playing random notes on your own keyboard as well if you have one and you basically have the whole album sorted. all the songs, while having their own catchy jingle, all sound very alike. But still, all the songs have this feeling of serene contentment that i could never really get tired of.
Also some of the lyrics for the songs are very weak. "Dental Care" for instance is entirely about the dentists. Whilst I have nothing against dentists I never saw them as great writing material.
But really this is overall a good review. A relaxing album that offers a great sense of freedom to the listener and lyrics,while not being about anything special, that make me smile.
BEST SONG
choosing my best song form this pile before me was not easy seeing as they all sound the same. but if pushed I would say "Hot Air Balloon" had the jingliest of the jingles.
Now firstly I Have no Idea what Synth-pop is. if asked to take a wild guess I'd go for a Genre that bases it's songs entirely around one catchy jingle. because look up catchy jingle in the dictionary and you will see Adam Young sucking a few more ring-tones off his Synth.
now I had just heard about thirty seconds of the song whilst in the car so i didn't have time to hang around for the name. so I did what I always do when I want to know more about a song but have no idea what it's called. I googled the lyrics and found that it was of course "Fireflies" the albums only real headliner. now most of you will have probably heard this song but not the rest of the album. in this case I advise you to get up and buy it because it is seriously good. If your too fat to move please buy it off I-Tunes. bordering on awesome apart from its few flaws,the music is well executed and beautifully presented with a heart-warming touch to many of the songs. it also has this felling of "Homemade Music." The music is so beautiful that you could have Sound tracked the Album for the movie "Avatar" (which I plan to review if all goes well) and it would be deemed fitting by many.
The Album does however seem to suffer from severe multiple personality disorder, Switching incoherently from BassHunter to Mika To High school musical for Christ's sake but seeing as they all round them off pretty well I wont complain too much
However there is one big problem with "Ocean Eyes."
Listen to "Fireflies" around 12 times perhaps playing random notes on your own keyboard as well if you have one and you basically have the whole album sorted. all the songs, while having their own catchy jingle, all sound very alike. But still, all the songs have this feeling of serene contentment that i could never really get tired of.
Also some of the lyrics for the songs are very weak. "Dental Care" for instance is entirely about the dentists. Whilst I have nothing against dentists I never saw them as great writing material.
But really this is overall a good review. A relaxing album that offers a great sense of freedom to the listener and lyrics,while not being about anything special, that make me smile.
BEST SONG
choosing my best song form this pile before me was not easy seeing as they all sound the same. but if pushed I would say "Hot Air Balloon" had the jingliest of the jingles.
