Artist: Oh No Ono
Album: Eggs
Label: Friendly Fire
Genre: Queen fed through a meat processor
Oh No Ono is a Danish experimental pop quartet whose intricate and other-worldly music defies conventions and expectations. The ten dense, hypertextured opuses found on their US debut album, Eggs, are truly breathtaking to behold; the band creates bewitching pop symphonies that unfold themselves more with each successive listen. It's hard to compare the band's sound with contemporaries because it changes from song to song. "Icicles" flirts with Queen's acapella, "Internet Warrior" sounds like Mew's (ponder: why do so many Danish bands have singers that sound as if they're victims of chemical castration?) dream-pop awash in orchestration and distortion. Eggs' vivacious, even lustful approach to songcraft is the trademark of a band determined to approach pop music via the hard road, without ever losing track of the essential pop music sound.
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