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Low Road (EXPLICIT) (CD)

By: Okay (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Low Road (EXPLICIT) (CD) Album By Okay (Artist)
1   Bloody  
2   Now  
3   Holy War  
4   We  
5   Devil  
6   Replace  
7   Oh  
8   Game  
9   Roman  
10   Hoot  
11   Bullseye  
 

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Magnet (p.110) - "Songs aren't unleashed as much as they're unwound, with contoured guitar and eerie-sounding synth jingles adding up to something indescribably warm and even playful."

Title Note

Personnel: Jay Pellicci (drums).

Recording information: 02/2003-02/2004.

Half of a pair of conceptually related discs released simultaneously, Okay's Low Road is, as the title suggests, considerably darker than the comparatively sunny (but still often unsettling) High Road. During the period in which Low Road was written and recorded, Okay's Marty Anderson (the band's only permanent member, although as on High Road, there are guest musicians here) was diagnosed with and nearly died from complications of the inflammatory bowel syndrome Crohn's Disease. On top of this, his girlfriend dumped him for one of his bandmates and the Iraq war started. So there's a pervasive gloom to Low Road, as song titles like "Bloody" and "Holy War" attest, and the fatalism of songs like "We" ("We're Number One/How low will we go?") and "Devil" ("We're killing you/Just like we're killing me") is only barely ameliorated by Anderson's facility for catchy indie pop hooks. Even more so than on High Road, Anderson manipulates his vocal tracks on Low Road with effects and processing that turn his voice (already a rather odd instrument with a pinched, nasal quality) into a slightly creepy, needling presence, but on songs like "Replace," which mutates the spiritual "Amazing Grace" into a gloomy dirge, it makes quite a bit more lyrical and thematic sense. Unlike the comparatively strained and self-consciously quirky High Road, Low Road sounds more personal and intimate, and it's arguably the better album of the two. ~ Stewart Mason

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